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I'd like to drastically increase the number of Chinese immigrants to the USA from the number in OTL.

According to what I've read on Wikipedia immigration of Chinese natives to the USA was induced by a the poor economy in the rural regions of China, the destruction induced by the Taiping Rebellion, and raising wages and labor opportunities to the US. The act of immigration was hindered from raising to levels above the hundreds of thousands by the desire of most immigrants to go to the US only to gain some wealth and then to return to China. Because of this most of these immigrants where physically fit males who left their families in China with the intention to return to them some time later with wealth gathered in the US. In connection to this the few females immigrants where composed of prostitutes seeking to gather business from the immigrant Chinese men.

These factors caused a deal of prejudice amongst the native US citizenry the thus enacted policies to limit Chinese immigration in order to reduce illegal prostitution, to maintain capital earned by workers to within the US, and maintain job opportunities to US citizens.

With this in mind I’d like to focus on finding ways to increase the immigration of whole families from China to the US, and decrease the gap between the number of male and female immigrants. As well I’d like to find a way to decrease the amount of xenophobia expressed by the Chinese which would allow them to integrate into the culture of the US more. I believe this in turn may butterfly away the US government policies, like the Chinese exclusion act, that limited further Chinese immigration in OTL.
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