Horror stories became a reason to avoid emigrating to the United States, but both legal and illegal immigration from China to America continued to rise during this decade. An ongoing problem that would-be Chinese immigrants have faced, including through the 1990s and into the current decades, is the control of both internal and external migration by the Chinese government (Au & Henderson 2005). This, coupled with an immigration policy that many still view as restrictive of Chinese immigration (though on amore subtle and therefore more insidious level than the previous quota system) have been the major negative forces in Chinese immigration to the United States over the latter decades of he twentieth century (Ting 1995). Still, Chinese immigration has continued to rise, and it is likely that this trend will continue -- just ast U.S. immigration to China is also rising as the countries become more economically...

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