The Boston Chinatown immigration raids refers to an incident on October 11, 1903, in

Chinatown, Boston Chinatown, Boston (Cantonese: 唐人街; Jyutping: ''Tong4jan4gaai1'') is a neighborhood located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It is the only surviving historic ethnic Chinese enclave in New England since the demise of the Chinatowns in Pro ...

where immigration officials arrested 234

Chinese Americans Chinese Americans are Americans of Han Chinese ancestry. Chinese Americans constitute a subgroup of East Asian Americans which also constitute a subgroup of Asian Americans. Many Chinese Americans along with their ancestors trace lineage from ...

for not being able to produce their papers in time for officials. While forty-five people were actually found to be in the country illegally, the raids occurred during a time of anti-Chinese sentiment. Many of those wrongly picked up by the police had their white wives and black friends help produce their papers, showing the multiracial aspects of the community.

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{{Reflist Chinatown, Boston Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States