Modern Immigration: A View of the Situation in Immigrant Receiving Countries |
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... born . An influx of aliens with lower living standards threatened this ; the remedy was restriction in the size of families.2 A similar experience has been feared or has resulted in other countries . Their history and legislation give ...
... born . An influx of aliens with lower living standards threatened this ; the remedy was restriction in the size of families.2 A similar experience has been feared or has resulted in other countries . Their history and legislation give ...
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... not attempt to do so . Certainly every human being born into the world should be given a chance to better himself either in the country of his origin or in some other place . But it goes without saying that 10 INTRODUCTION.
... not attempt to do so . Certainly every human being born into the world should be given a chance to better himself either in the country of his origin or in some other place . But it goes without saying that 10 INTRODUCTION.
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... born swell the number to thirty - five millions , a goodly portion , -indeed a third , of our entire population . If all descendants were counted , the so - called native American would feel overshadowed by the mighty host , and begin ...
... born swell the number to thirty - five millions , a goodly portion , -indeed a third , of our entire population . If all descendants were counted , the so - called native American would feel overshadowed by the mighty host , and begin ...
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... born women and children worked everywhere , since little skill was required by machine tenders . The first large foreign accessions came from Germany and Ireland ; the former for political , the latter for economic reasons.1 These ...
... born women and children worked everywhere , since little skill was required by machine tenders . The first large foreign accessions came from Germany and Ireland ; the former for political , the latter for economic reasons.1 These ...
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... thirty - five million foreign born and their children who live within our gates . The series is published by Harper Brothers . 6 The Macmillan Company , 1922 . WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE , AND WHENCE HAVE THEY COME 20 MODERN IMMIGRATION.
... thirty - five million foreign born and their children who live within our gates . The series is published by Harper Brothers . 6 The Macmillan Company , 1922 . WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE , AND WHENCE HAVE THEY COME 20 MODERN IMMIGRATION.
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Page 325 - States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and, particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of which the alien may be at the time a citizen or subject.
Page 327 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he absolutely and entirely renounces and abjures all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of which he was before, a citizen or subject," which proceedings must be recorded by the clerk of the court.
Page 282 - 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 289 - 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 234 - ... persons who are members of or affiliated with any organllation entertaining and teaching disbelief in or opposition to organized government, or who advocate or teach 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...
Page 262 - ... any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted by others to come...
Page 238 - That in every case where an alien is excluded from admission into the United States, under any law or...
Page 260 - ... 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 280 - Act, and all duties and taxes collected in the United States upon articles coming from the Philippine Archipelago and upon foreign vessels coming therefrom, shall not be covered into the general fund of the Treasury of the United States, but shall be held as a separate fund and paid into the Treasury of the Philippine Islands, to be used and expended for the government and benefit of said Islands.
Page 324 - Territory; also all courts of record in any State or Territory now existing, or which may hereafter be created, having a seal, a clerk, and jurisdiction in actions at law or equity, or law and equity, in which the amount in controversy is unlimited.