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An 1862 law allowed honorably discharged Army veterans of any war to petition for naturalization, without having filed a declaration of intent, after only one year of residence in the United States. An 1894 law extended the same privilege to honorably discharged 5-year veterans of the Navy or Marine Corps. Over 192,000 aliens were naturalized between May 9, 1918, and June 30, 1919, under an act of May 9, 1918. Laws enacted in 1919, 1926, 1940, and 1952 continued preferential treatment provisions for veterans. <ref>Schulze, Lorine McGinnis (2003) http://www.naturalizationrecords.com/usa/ Retrieved April 23, 2005</ref>
Passage of the Fourteenth Amendment meant that, in theory, all persons born in the U.S. are citizens regardless of race. However it was not applied to [[Asia]]ns at the time. The enabling legislation for the naturalization aspects of the Fourteenth Amendment was the [[
The [[1882]] [[Chinese Exclusion Act (United States)|Chinese Exclusion Act]] banned Chinese workers and specifically barred them from naturalization. The [[Immigration Act of 1917]], (Barred Zone Act) extended those restrictions to almost all Asians.
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