ABSTRACT
Of the major Asian populations in the United States, the Filipinos are growing the most rapidly, through both natural birth and immigration. Originally classified as non-Aliens, but still barred from citizenship, the Filipinos were accorded to the status of nationals a terminology in consonance with the nature of American sovereignty in the Philippine Islands. It is also a manipulation which happened to be convenient to the American labor unions as well as to the Hawaiian Sugar Planation Association and its subsidiaries, for it allowed them the liberty of recruiting Filipino plantation and farm workers as substitute laborers for the yellow race. By 1930, the Filipinos were the third largest foreign student population on American campuses, next to the Chinese and the Canadians. Of the different Asiatics who have migrated to the United States for more than a hundred years, the Filipinos were the only ones who have served in large numbers in the American Armed Forces without possessing an American citizenship.
