Annual Report of the Commissioner-General of ImmigrationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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Page 118 - Rec., p. 3644) and in 1902-3 a card system was introduced "by means of which such an accurate and accessible record is kept at every port of arrival that at any subsequent time the name, date of arrival, and other particulars in regard to every alien entering the United States can be readily ascertained.
Page 118 - that provision should be made for the detail of competent medical officers, representing the Government, for service at foreign ports, to examine aliens prior to embarcation for the United States.
Page 38 - The express exceptions are retained in the proposed law and the limitation of the right to import alien labor is enlarged by striking out the proviso that such labor must be used on "new industries, etc...
Page 110 - From the foregoing statement it will be seen that the net balance on hand after payment of all expenses incident to the administration of the laws and regulations in regard to immigration, and of the sum of $239,743.01 for new buildings, improvements and alterations, ferryboat, new island, etc., at Ellis Island Immigrant Station, is$l,389,403.08.
Page 79 - In closing this report, I desire to express my conviction of the importance to an efficient administration of the laws, particularly those in relation to the exclusion of Chinese, of adopting the best available method of securing such a physical record of every alien found to be inadmissible to the United btates as will enable administrative officers to identif}' such alien should he seek access thereto after rejection.
Page 45 - Some idea of its importance may be gathered from the fact, that the Salisbury Journal was first published in 1730, about seventy years before any other newspaper in the three counties.
Page 34 - ... not less than a quarter of a million more alien laborers. To state the situation exactly, it is now indispensable to the government's successful maintenance of a penal action under the provisions of these laws: First, that the alien contracted for shall escape the vigilance of the inspection officers, and effect a landing; and, second, that the work for which he was engaged shall be unskilled manual labor. It appears superfluous to say, in view of the foregoing, that the bureau has no report...
Page 119 - Immigrant 473 or standard, but rather "in their congregation in alien colonies, usually in the great cities, where the competition for the means of subsistence is most strenuous, the contrast between wealth and poverty most conspicuous and most productive of discontent and resentment against such inequalities and the civilization which make such contrasts possible, and where temptations to vice are most numerous."1 It is in the very nature of things that the members of such alien...
Page 79 - States as will enable administrative officers to identify such alien should he seek access thereto after rejection. Such a record, it is believed, can be secured by the adoption of what is known as the
Page 119 - ... in our great cities, where the competition for the means of subsistence is most strenuous, the contrasts between wealth and poverty most conspicuous and most productive of discontent and resentment against such inequalities and the civilization which makes such contrasts possible, and where temptations to vice are most numerous. "These colonies, thus unfortunately located, continue alien in language, thought and feeling. Their members not only pursue nonproductive or but slightly productive occupations...