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THE BENCH Opinion # Written by: Associate Justice George Sutherland Sutherland found that only Caucasians were white, and therefore the Japanese, by not being Caucasian, were not white and instead were members of an "unassimmilable race", lacking provisions in any Naturalization Act. EFFECTS OF THE DECISION Within three months, Sutherland carried a similarly disfavorable ruling on another Supreme Court case concerning another alien seeking U.S. citizenship, United States V. Bhagat Singh Thind Both decisions had a deleterious effect to Asian Americans as a class, strengthening and re-affirming the racist policies of U.S. immigration laws. With successful judicial backing, policymakers passed more anti-Asian laws across the nation under the heavy lobbying by the burgeoning Asiatic Exclusion League . This trend continued until the civil rights movements of the 1960s. EXTERNAL LINKS
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