Others were formed the next year in Signal Hill. Puente. Burbank. Wilmington. El Monte. Hawthorne. Lowland. Moneta. Fruitland. and Anaheim. The Moneta association had 220 members. The alien land law of 1913 prohibited Issei. the first generation immigrants from Japan who were barred from naturalization. from owning land. It also limited their land lease period to 3 years. A stronger alien land law passed in 1920 prohibited Issei from even owning stock in a landowning company. one of the means by which they tried to cling to one of the few ways open to them to make a living in a strange land.
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