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Valentine S. McClatchy for Mexicans to gain a classification of their race to ensure they would not be able to be exempt from the 1924 Immigration Act. In 1937, he lobbied to strip Kibei, Japanese Americans born in the United States who were sent to Japan to study or visit family for an extended time, of their citizenship if they had been in Japan for more than a year. He died of a heart condition on May 15, 1938. Valentine S. McClatchy Valentine Stuart McClatchy (August 29, 1857 – May 15, 1938) was an American newspaper owner and journalist. As publisher of "The