A. By 1870, Chinese miners had paid $5 million to the state of California via the Foreign Miners License Tax, yet they faced continuing discrimination at work and in their camps. //]]>, In 1906 the San Francisco School Board segregated the city's Japanese students into a school where Chinese students had already been segregated. Roosevelt called the San Francisco mayor and School Board to Washington and . Attacks and protests against Japanese immigrants and businesses were frequent. This, however, led some regulators to believe that there was rampant collusion and unfair business dealings. ." Milestones: 1899-1913 - Office of the Historian Members of a Congressional committee look over passports of Japanese 'picture brides' at the immigration station of Angel Island, circa 1920. Whereas, by the act entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States," approved February 20, 1907, whenever the President is satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone, are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, it is made the duty of the President to refuse to permit such citizens of the country issuing such passports to enter the continental territory of the United States from such country or from such insular possession or from the Canal Zone; And Whereas, upon sufficient evidence produced before me by the Department of Commerce and Labor, I am satisfied that passports issued by the Government of Japan to citizens of that country or Korea and who are laborers, skilled or unskilled, to go to Mexico, to Canada and to Hawaii, are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders thereof to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein; I hereby order that such citizens of Japan or Korea, to-wit: Japanese or Korean laborers, skilled and unskilled, who have received passports to go to Mexico, Canada or Hawaii, and come therefrom, be refused permission to enter the continental territory of the United States. West's Encyclopedia of American Law. the first book published in north america (1628) was _____.