During the late nineteenth century, there was remarkable growth in America’s industrial economy. While this led to improvements in living standards for middle class workers, immigrants were faced with deteriorating respect with heightened ethnical tensions. Asian workers were forced into factories for long hours at a time, only to go home to a filthy crowded tenement. The Chinese were still the most hated Asian group. The government even passed laws to prevent any more Chinese from coming into America. These prevention laws were also created against other Asian groups. In the early 20th century, Punjabi migrants from India came to America to find work. Due to protests from white workers, Congress put a stop to immigration from India.