法案的制定有复杂的历史背景,包括当时美国国内的种族隔离制度、华人劳工与白人的工作纷争、华人的生活习惯等,具体情况可以看下面的录像。这里简要说明几点。1. 法案仅仅禁止劳工进入美国,留学生、商人、知识分子等不在范围之内。2. 美国政府没有把在美国生活的华人驱逐出境,并且最高法庭在判例上确立了在美国出生即为美国公民的制度(1898 年,广东人 Wong Kim Ark 诉美国政府案)。3. 美国当时也禁止日本劳工入境。
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told law students at the University of Hawaii on Monday that the nation's highest court was wrong to uphold the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, but he wouldn't be surprised if the court issued a similar ruling during a future conflict.
Scalia was responding to a question about the court's 1944 decision in Korematsu v. United States, which upheld the convictions of Gordon Hirabayashi and Fred Korematsu for violating an order to report to an internment camp.
"Well of course Korematsu was wrong. And I think we have repudiated in a later case. But you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again," Scalia told students and faculty during a lunchtime Q-and-A session.
Scalia cited a Latin expression meaning, "In times of war, the laws fall silent." 如果了解美国历史, 将来并非没有可能发生。
法案的制定有复杂的历史背景,包括当时美国国内的种族隔离制度、华人劳工与白人的工作纷争、华人的生活习惯等,具体情况可以看下面的录像。这里简要说明几点。1. 法案仅仅禁止劳工进入美国,留学生、商人、知识分子等不在范围之内。2. 美国政府没有把在美国生活的华人驱逐出境,并且最高法庭在判例上确立了在美国出生即为美国公民的制度(1898 年,广东人 Wong Kim Ark 诉美国政府案)。3. 美国当时也禁止日本劳工入境。