Immigration Laws: Act of February 5, 1917, and Acts Approved October 16, 1918, October 19, 1918, May 10, 1920, June 5, 1920, December 26, 1920, and May 19, 1921 : Rules of May 1, 1917 : Amendments to Rules 1, 4, 12, 13, 16, 22, and 31, and Regulations Under Acts Approved December 26, 1920 and May 19, 1921

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U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Immigration, 1921 - Emigration and immigration law - 118 pages

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Page 31 - States or of all forms of law, or (2) the duty, .necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers (either of specific individuals or of officers generally) of the Government of the United States...
Page 100 - The purpose of the Department of Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 96 - That any American woman who marries a foreigner shall take the nationality of her husband. At the termination of the marital relation she may resume her American citizenship, if abroad, by registering as an American citizen within one year with a consul of the United States, or by returning to reside in the United States, or if residing in the United States at the termination of the marital relation, by continuing to reside therein.
Page 32 - ... any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted by others to come...
Page 18 - That in every case where an alien is excluded from admission into the United States, under any law or...
Page 76 - ... anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States, or of all government, or of all forms of law, or the assassination of public officials...
Page 5 - ... who have been induced, assisted, encouraged, or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment, whether such offers or promises are true or false, or in consequence of agreements, oral, written or printed, express or implied, to perform labor in this country of any kind, skilled or unskilled...
Page 75 - ... any alien who is hereafter sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one year or more because of conviction in this country of a crime involving moral turpitude...
Page 6 - All aliens over sixteen years of age, physically capable of reading, who can not read the English language, or some other language or dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish...
Page 7 - States who later goes in transit from one part of the United States to another through foreign contiguous territory...

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