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Everyone is aware of cultural discrimination in American, but there are many lesser know discriminatory laws.

• In 1862, California passed an act imposing a tax on both Chinese laborers and their employers. Incensed by claims that the Chinese were taking jobs from white laborers and undercutting wages, vigilantes frequently targeted California's Chinese.
• The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• The government formally deported around 82,000 Mexicans from 1929 to 1935.