法案的製定有複雜的曆史背景,包括當時美國國內的種族隔離製度、華人勞工與白人的工作紛爭、華人的生活習慣等,具體情況可以看下麵的錄像。這裏簡要說明幾點。1. 法案僅僅禁止勞工進入美國,留學生、商人、知識分子等不在範圍之內。2. 美國政府沒有把在美國生活的華人驅逐出境,並且最高法庭在判例上確立了在美國出生即為美國公民的製度(1898 年,廣東人 Wong Kim Ark 訴美國政府案)。3. 美國當時也禁止日本勞工入境。
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." 如果了解美國曆史, 將來並非沒有可能發生。
法案的製定有複雜的曆史背景,包括當時美國國內的種族隔離製度、華人勞工與白人的工作紛爭、華人的生活習慣等,具體情況可以看下麵的錄像。這裏簡要說明幾點。1. 法案僅僅禁止勞工進入美國,留學生、商人、知識分子等不在範圍之內。2. 美國政府沒有把在美國生活的華人驅逐出境,並且最高法庭在判例上確立了在美國出生即為美國公民的製度(1898 年,廣東人 Wong Kim Ark 訴美國政府案)。3. 美國當時也禁止日本勞工入境。