1. Elthne Lulbheld,Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border31(2002). The Page Act prohibited the immigration of convicts, prostitutes, and forced laborers from Asia. The Page Act of 1875, 18 Stat. 477, 477-78. The prostitution provision was heavily enforced, especially against Chinese women immigrants, while the others were not. Lulbheld,supra, at 31. For further background on the Page Act and its effects,
2. Hiroshi Motomura,Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States17(2006).
3. See, e.g., S.B. 1070, 2d Reg. Sess. § 1 (Ariz. 2010) (codified atAriz. Rev. Stat. Ann. §11-1051(A) (2012) (declaring an intent to “discourage and deter the unlawful entry andpresenceof aliens and economic activity by personsunlawfully presentin the United States.”); Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act, 2011 Ala. Laws 535, § 2 (finding that “illegal immigration is causing economic hardship and lawlessness in the state”). To the extent that national restrictionist advocacy organizations have influenced state legislators to pass such laws,