Chinese immigrant laborers helped build the transcontinental railroad. Did you know that 20,000 Chinese came and that they were 90% of the workforce? The railroad was finished the same year that WY women were given the vote, 1869. What followed includes an economic depression that is blamed on the same immigrants and a series of laws called the Chinese Exclusion Acts.
The unintended consequence may foreshadow the consequence of a mass deportation in coming years. Read more>>>
Chinese immigrants must go? Few benefit & 1889 economy stalls