The key ones are below:[2] A parallel set of legislative, executive, and judicial changes was unfolding in the domain of Chinese exclusion.

[2] The Act specified that the officers in charge of any vessel arriving by sea had to submit a list of passengers with their biographical information to the immigration inspectors at the port.

However, in this case the list needed to be submitted immediately upon arrival and was used to inspect aliens prior to admitting them.

The new executive or bureaucratic office would comprise three clerks and a superintendent appointed by the president, who all worked under the jurisdiction of the secretary of the treasury.

[6][7] An Act of October 19, 1888 had established the authority to remove migrants who should not have been allowed to enter for up to one year after their arrival.

Sections 3 and 4 forbade advertising journeys to migrants as a way of getting jobs, updating the Alien Contract Labor Law.

This was the first time the Supreme Court allowed judicial review of a procedural due process claim.