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The U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of immigration measures that list "health status" as a determinant.

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This permits states to begin to take what are deemed as "precautionary measures" against the “importation of paupers, vagabonds, 'convicts' and infectious articles" as a way to control immigrants assumed to be bringing in infectious diseases.