The Significance of Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Act For a considerable amount of time, immigration has been one of the most significant and contentious issues in American and international diplomacy. On the one hand, immigrants can contribute labor, ideas, and talents that can support development. However, immigrants may displace indigenous in terms of employment prospects. In the Exclusion Act of 1882 , the latter group of worries led the United States and many other nations to implement a range of immigration restrictions over time. Investigating the Economic Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act Our research looks at the effects of one of the harshest, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, on the economy. Driven by xenophobia as well as concerns that Chinese laborers would steal employment and lower white workers' pay, the United States forbade Chinese nationals born in the country from entering the country, and prevented legalized immigrants from reentering or applying