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News article published warning of a "Hindu Invasion."

Date: 1907

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The author of the article pushes racist stereotypes of South Asian immigrants as dangerous and diseased, citing a statistic that one third of recent Sikh applicants for admission into the U.S. were rejected due to being labelled "likely to become a public charge," a carrier of a contagious disease, or for violating a labor law.