Trump's New Travel Ban Has One Historic Precedent: The Chinese Exclusion Act

<p>The Trump administration this week announced sweeping new restrictions on travelers from eight countries:  Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen</p> <p>Days later, the administration formally established that the United States will take in no more than 45,000 refugees fleeing conflict around the world. This is a record-low cap on the number of refugees that the United States has ever resettled since 1980. To put this in context, the previous cap authorized by President Obama was 110,000.  </p> <p>The travel ban and refugee cap are two separate policies, but they are related, at least politically, in the...