The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. Building on the 1875 Page Act, which banned Chinese women from immigrating to the United States, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law implemented to prevent all members of a specific ethnic or national group from immigrating.

Exclusion was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943, which allowed 105 Chinese to enter per year. Chinese immigration later increased with the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which abolished direct racial barriers, and later by Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which abolished the National Origins Formula.

(Source: Wikipedia "Chinese Exclusion Act")

1879年的加州用一张张选票把华人赶出了美国。尽管当时华人已经占加州人口的9%，然而华人却没有政治力量，没有话语权更没有选举权。

当今的华人占美国人口1.5%，华人该如何使用话语权，选举权，提高华人的政治参与力度?

(摘自美华史记上的文章"这十五万多张选票，促成美国禁止华人移民六十三年")