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... Admission of Illiterates . Our Illiterate Immigrants . Reading - test for Immi- National Geographic Magazine . 26 : 265-71 . S. '14 . Foreign born of the United States . Statistics and tables . North American Review . 180 : 856-67 . Je ...
... Admission of Illiterates . Our Illiterate Immigrants . Reading - test for Immi- National Geographic Magazine . 26 : 265-71 . S. '14 . Foreign born of the United States . Statistics and tables . North American Review . 180 : 856-67 . Je ...
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... admission of aliens should be based primarily upon economic or business considera- tions touching the prosperity and economic well - being of our people . 3. The measure of the rational , healthy development of a country is not the ...
... admission of aliens should be based primarily upon economic or business considera- tions touching the prosperity and economic well - being of our people . 3. The measure of the rational , healthy development of a country is not the ...
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... admitted to the United States only upon the production of proper certificates showing an absence of convictions for excludable crimes . ( c ) So far as practicable the immigration laws should be so amended as to be made applicable to ...
... admitted to the United States only upon the production of proper certificates showing an absence of convictions for excludable crimes . ( c ) So far as practicable the immigration laws should be so amended as to be made applicable to ...
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... admission of such unskilled labor . It is desirable in making the restriction that— ( a ) A sufficient number be debarred to produce a marked effect upon the present supply of unskilled labor . ( b ) As far as possible , the aliens ...
... admission of such unskilled labor . It is desirable in making the restriction that— ( a ) A sufficient number be debarred to produce a marked effect upon the present supply of unskilled labor . ( b ) As far as possible , the aliens ...
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... admission of those likely to become a charge upon the community , or likely to endanger its citizens by physical contagion , vice or unfair competition . The following classes are debarred : Idiots , im- 1 " The educational test ...
... admission of those likely to become a charge upon the community , or likely to endanger its citizens by physical contagion , vice or unfair competition . The following classes are debarred : Idiots , im- 1 " The educational test ...
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Popular passages
Page 307 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Page 268 - Whenever in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States or their residence therein, affects or threatens to affect the interests of that country, or to endanger the good order of the said country, or of any locality within the territory thereof, the Government of China agrees that the Government of the United States may regulate, limit, or suspend such coming or residence, but may not absolutely prohibit it.
Page 225 - An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States...
Page 269 - The subjects or citizens of each of the high contracting parties shall have liberty to enter, travel, and reside in the territories of the other...
Page 269 - That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign Government to its citizens or subjects to go to any country other than the United States, or to any insular possession of the United States...
Page 134 - God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting, Then had sifted the wheat, as the living seed of a nation...
Page 270 - All aliens other than those mentioned in Section 1 of this act may acquire, possess, enjoy, and transfer real property, or any interest therein, in this state, in the manner and to the extent and for the purposes prescribed by any treaty now existing between the government of the United States and the nation or country of which such alien is a citizen or subject, and not otherwise...
Page 43 - And provided further, That skilled labor may be imported, if labor of like kind unemployed cannot be found in this country : And provided further, That the provisions of this law applicable to contract labor shall not be held to exclude professional actors, artists, lecturers, singers, ministers of any religious denomination, professors for colleges or seminaries, persons belonging to any...
Page 226 - The literacy test and the tests and restrictions which accompany it constitute an even more radical change in the policy of the nation. Hitherto we have generously kept our doors open to all who were not unfitted by reason of disease or incapacity for self-support or such personal records and antecedents as were likely to make them a menace to our peace and order or to the wholesome and essential relationships of life. In this bill it is proposed to turn away from tests...
Page 269 - This understanding contemplates that the Japanese Government shall issue passports to continental United States only to such of its subjects as are non-laborers, 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, to assume the active control of an already possessed interest in a farming enterprise in this country...