Restriction of Western Hemisphere Immigration...: Hearings...on S. 1296, a Bill to Amend the Immigration Act of 1924, and S. 1437, a Bill to Subject Certain Immigrants...and S. 3019, a Bill to Amend the Immigration Laws...1928 - 192 pages |
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... industry and agriculture may have cheap labor , and having used it , may cast it aside knowing full well that another crop of un- fortunates has come into the country and awaits exploitation . Mr. Chairman , there is no shortage of ...
... industry and agriculture may have cheap labor , and having used it , may cast it aside knowing full well that another crop of un- fortunates has come into the country and awaits exploitation . Mr. Chairman , there is no shortage of ...
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... industrial commissioner from Arizona , has this to say about conditions in the State of Arizona : I want to say to you I have had some experience as a State official in ascer- taining what it was costing the State of Arizona to maintain ...
... industrial commissioner from Arizona , has this to say about conditions in the State of Arizona : I want to say to you I have had some experience as a State official in ascer- taining what it was costing the State of Arizona to maintain ...
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... industry , are throwing their advertisements for labor across the Mexican line ? When it comes to Mexican competition , I want to assure you it is not only menial work . At the beginning the Mexican immigrant and the oriental immigrant ...
... industry , are throwing their advertisements for labor across the Mexican line ? When it comes to Mexican competition , I want to assure you it is not only menial work . At the beginning the Mexican immigrant and the oriental immigrant ...
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... industry . Senator REED . I have those figures here now . Representative GARNER . Yes , sir . Senator REED . For the year ended June 30 last there were 66,766 Mexicans admitted for permanent residence in the United States , and there ...
... industry . Senator REED . I have those figures here now . Representative GARNER . Yes , sir . Senator REED . For the year ended June 30 last there were 66,766 Mexicans admitted for permanent residence in the United States , and there ...
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... industry and transportation they displace great numbers of Americans who are left without employment and drift into poverty , even vagrancy , being unable to maintain families or to help sustain American communities . Volumes of data ...
... industry and transportation they displace great numbers of Americans who are left without employment and drift into poverty , even vagrancy , being unable to maintain families or to help sustain American communities . Volumes of data ...
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Page 96 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic...
Page 3 - An immigrant who continuously for at least two years immediately preceding the time of his application for admission to the United States has been, and who seeks to enter the United States solely for the purpose of, carrying on the vocation of minister of any religious denomination, or professor of a college, academy, seminary, or university and his wife, and his unmarried children under 18 years of age, if accompany or following to join him...
Page 96 - In view of the existing depression in agriculture, the Commission is hereby directed to effect with the least practicable delay such lawful changes in the rate structure of the country as will promote the freedom of movement by common carriers of the products of agriculture affected by that depression, including livestock, at the lowest possible lawful rate compatible with the maintenance of adequate transportation service...
Page 2 - The annual quota of any nationality for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1927, and for each fiscal year thereafter, shall be a number which bears the same ratio to 150,000 as the number of inhabitants in continental United States in 1920...
Page 2 - States, who is returning from a temporary visit abroad ; (c) An immigrant who was born in the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Republic of Mexico, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Canal Zone, or an independent country of Central or South America, and his wife, and his unmarried children under 18 years of age, if accompanying or following to join him...
Page 2 - The Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Labor, jointly...
Page 2 - The annual quota of any nationality shall be 2 per centum of the number of foreign-born individuals of such nationality resident in continental United States as determined by the United States census of 1890, but the minimum quota of any nationality shall be 100.
Page 4 - No vessel shall be granted clearance pending the determination of the liability to the payment of such fine, or while the fine remains unpaid, except that clearance may be granted prior to the determination of such question upon the deposit of a sum sufficient to cover such fine, or of a bond with sufficient surety to secure the payment thereof approved by the collector of customs.
Page 2 - For the purpose of subdivisions (b) and (c) the term "inhabitants in continental United States in 1920 " does not include (1) immigrants from the geographical areas specified in subdivision (c) of section 4 or their descendants, (2) aliens ineligible to citizenship or their descendants, (3) the descendants of slave immigrants, or (4) the descendants of American aborigines.
Page 3 - The validity of an immigration visa shall expire at the end of such period, specified in the immigration visa, not exceeding four months, as shall be by regulations prescribed. In the case of an immigrant arriving in...