Isn't it all really racism at the core, the "yellowing" of the West Coast, with the usual suspects as well as the people listed by
CaliBoy1990? I refuse to go down the very dirty laundry list of complaints listed by such people. However, it wasn't happening just in Congress. Plenty of racists all over.
Just look at the racist reactions of White neighborhoods in the American interior (THIS IS A WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD/JAPS KEEP MOVING) during the expulsion of the Nisei. Supposedly, they were only supposed to be sent to temporary "relocation centers" prior to being sent to the Midwest or East Coast. Similar to what Ottawa did with their Japanese-Canadians. (1)
Instead, the Nisei were kept in the camps until the Supreme Court in mid-1944 reversed its 1942 decision allowing the camps in the first place.
Oh, but one thing: If Chinese immigration is much more open, maybe the "China Lobby" really becomes as powerful in such an ATL as many posters like to claim in WWII ATL threads.
1) Not to say that the Canadian treatment of their Japanese-descended citizens was any better than America's. In fact,
it was much worse!