Percentage Plans for Restriction of Immigration: Hearings ... June-Sept. 1919 |
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... Immigration and Naturalization. CONTENTS . ASIATIC IMMIGRATION : Restrictions on in Australia , Canada , and New Zealand , Appendix B. Exclusion of , by United States , map showing boundaries by ... IMMIGRATION . COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION.
... Immigration and Naturalization. CONTENTS . ASIATIC IMMIGRATION : Restrictions on in Australia , Canada , and New Zealand , Appendix B. Exclusion of , by United States , map showing boundaries by ... IMMIGRATION . COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION.
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... immigration commission should decide that the 10 per cent basis would be the proper figure , the permissible immigration from the countries of northwest Europe would be a million and a half , whereas the actual immigration for these ...
... immigration commission should decide that the 10 per cent basis would be the proper figure , the permissible immigration from the countries of northwest Europe would be a million and a half , whereas the actual immigration for these ...
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... immigration commission . You will find these func- tions set out on page 9 , beginning at the middle of the page , section 5 : ( a ) That the immigration commission shall each year determine the percentage rate as provided for in ...
... immigration commission . You will find these func- tions set out on page 9 , beginning at the middle of the page , section 5 : ( a ) That the immigration commission shall each year determine the percentage rate as provided for in ...
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... Immigration and Naturalization. country that had no means . There families were very poor ; but these companies would pay their expenses and send them to the United States and take the first receipts from their earnings to pay off their ...
... Immigration and Naturalization. country that had no means . There families were very poor ; but these companies would pay their expenses and send them to the United States and take the first receipts from their earnings to pay off their ...
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... Immigration and Naturalization. Dr. GULICK . I was speaking of the causes of irritation . China has moved forward ; she is looking to the western world ; she is adjusting her life , and the Chinese are entering into Occidental methods of ...
... Immigration and Naturalization. Dr. GULICK . I was speaking of the causes of irritation . China has moved forward ; she is looking to the western world ; she is adjusting her life , and the Chinese are entering into Occidental methods of ...
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admission admitted aliens amended American-born children Asiatics assimilate become American citizens bill birth rate born Bureau California census census of 1920 CHAIRMAN China citizenship coming Committee for Constructive Constructive Immigration Legislation Council of Churches court desirable economic English language excluded fact Federal Council figures FREEMAN gentlemen's agreement gration Gulick plan Hawaii Hawaiian Islands immi immigration commission increase indorsed Japa Japan Japanese births Japanese Government Japanese immigration Japanese in Hawaii Japanese population JENKS JOHN FRANKLIN MILLER KLECZKA KNUTSON labor land large numbers league MACFARLAND marriage matter maximum MCCLATCHY ment mother-tongue group MURPHY National Committee naturalized number of Japanese organization Orient passports percentage plan permissible immigration persons picture brides principles problem proposed law province of Japan question RAKER record regard residence restriction SABATH Sacramento schools Seattle Secretary Senator PHELAN SIEGEL statement statistics thing tion treaty undesirable United WELTY
Popular passages
Page 157 - Whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States...
Page 14 - Chinese subjects, whether proceeding to the United States as teachers, students, merchants or from curiosity, together with their body and household servants, and Chinese laborers who are now in the United States shall be allowed to go and come of their own free will and accord, and shall be accorded all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are accorded to the citizens and subjects of the most favored nation.
Page 14 - If Chinese laborers, or Chinese of any other class, now either permanently or temporarily residing in the territory of the United States, meet with ill treatment at the hands of any other persons, the Government of the United States will exert all its power to devise measures for their protection and to secure to them the same rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions as may be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation, and to which they are entitled by treaty.
Page 157 - States only to such of its subjects as are nonlaborers or are laborers who, in comtng to the continent, seek to resume a formerly acquired domicile, to join a parent, wife, or children residing there, or to assume active control of an already possessed interest in a farming enterprise in this country ; so that the three classes of laborers entitled to receive passports have come to be designated " former residents," " parents, wives, or children of residents," and
Page 207 - Washington, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Imperial Japanese Government are fully prepared to maintain with equal effectiveness the limitation and control which they have for the past three years exercised in regulation of the...
Page 1 - States who later goes in transit from one part of the United States to another through foreign contiguous territory...
Page 207 - This understanding contemplates that the Japanese Government shall issue passports to continental United States only to such of its subjects as are nonlaborers or are laborers who, in coming to the continent, seek to resume a formerly acquired domicile, to join a parent, wife, or children residing there, or to assume active control of an already possessed interest in a farming enterprise in this country; so that the three classes of laborers entitled to receive passports have come to be designated...
Page 147 - ... he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.
Page 157 - Japanese or Korean laborers, skilled or unskilled, who have received passports to go to Mexico, Canada, or Hawaii, and come therefrom
Page 14 - China agrees that the Government of the United States may regulate, limit, or suspend such coming or residence, but may not absolutely prohibit it.