Ben Waber reviewed At America's Gates by Erika Lee
A Rigorous, Painful Deep Dive into a Fraught Period of Chinese Immigration to the US
5 stars
While Lee covers some of the issues in this book in later works, I learned a lot from the tighter focus on the Chinese immigration experience. This was when the US essentially invented illegal immigration, and the additional unconstitutional discrimination layered on top of these new restrictions is sobering. This should be required reading for everyone in the US. Highly recommend