Florida's restrictions on property purchases by Chinese citizens hark back to a dark history of xenophobia

In 1913, three decades after Congress approved the Chinese Exclusion Act, California prohibited Chinese and other Asian immigrants from owning land. More than a dozen other states, including Florida, enacted similar "alien land laws" during the next few decades. S.B. 264, which Florida Gov. Ron…

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