Selective Immigration Legislation: Hearings Before the ...sixty-eighth Congress, First Session on S. 2365 and S. 2576, a Bill to Limit the Immigration of Aliens Into the United States, and to Provide...1924 - 314 pages |
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... foreign governments would cooperate with us in issuing passports ? Secretary DAVIS . They do not know what to do with their popu- lation , Senator . Take it in Great Britain alone , and this illustra- tion applies to all other countries ...
... foreign governments would cooperate with us in issuing passports ? Secretary DAVIS . They do not know what to do with their popu- lation , Senator . Take it in Great Britain alone , and this illustra- tion applies to all other countries ...
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... foreign countries and all this talk about discrimination and this great army of people that are try- ing to prevent any legislation , I have really reached this conclusion in immigration : That I would adopt something similar to the ...
... foreign countries and all this talk about discrimination and this great army of people that are try- ing to prevent any legislation , I have really reached this conclusion in immigration : That I would adopt something similar to the ...
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... foreign nations because we selected 1910 rather than 1920 ? Secretary DAVIS . I did not get your question , Senator . Senator KING . Have any foreign nations made any complaint be- cause we took 1910 instead of 1920 as the basis of our ...
... foreign nations because we selected 1910 rather than 1920 ? Secretary DAVIS . I did not get your question , Senator . Senator KING . Have any foreign nations made any complaint be- cause we took 1910 instead of 1920 as the basis of our ...
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... foreign governments to taking the 1910 census . Senator COPELAND . I would not think that Italy would have any very great grief because in 1890 our Italian population was 1,182,000 while in 1910 it was 1,334,000 , including the outlying ...
... foreign governments to taking the 1910 census . Senator COPELAND . I would not think that Italy would have any very great grief because in 1890 our Italian population was 1,182,000 while in 1910 it was 1,334,000 , including the outlying ...
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... foreign born did not know in 1920 the name of the country in which they had been born . Senator HARRISON . I was only trying to drive this point in answer to those who say that if we adopt 1890 as the basis , there would be great ...
... foreign born did not know in 1920 the name of the country in which they had been born . Senator HARRISON . I was only trying to drive this point in answer to those who say that if we adopt 1890 as the basis , there would be great ...
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Popular passages
Page 48 - ... name and complete address; whether ever before in the United States, and if so, when and where; whether ever in prison or almshouse or an institution or hospital for the care and treatment of the insane...
Page 179 - ... 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 179 - States, deported as having been induced or solicited to migrate as above described ; any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes...
Page 150 - SEC. 16. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, including any transportation company, or the owner, master, agent, charterer, or consignee of any vessel, to bring to the United States by water from any place outside thereof (other than foreign contiguous territory...
Page 202 - States to another through foreign contiguous territory, (5) a bona fide alien seaman serving as such on a vessel arriving at a port of the United States and seeking to enter temporarily the United States solely in the pursuit of his calling as a seaman...
Page 162 - Labor shall by regulation prescribe; and after the arrival of any such vessel it shall be the duty of such owner, agent, consignee, or master to report to such immigration officer, in writing, as soon as discovered, all cases in which any such alien has illegally landed from the vessel, giving a description of such alien, together with any information likely to lead to his apprehension ; and before the departure of any such vessel...
Page 158 - The owner, charterer, agent, consignee, or master of any vessel arriving in the United States from any place outside thereof who fails to detain on board any alien seaman employed on such vessel until the immigration officer in charge at the port of arrival has inspected such seaman...
Page 11 - 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 202 - The admission to the United States of an alien excepted from the class of immigrants by clause (2), (3), (4), (5), or (6) of section 3, or declared to be a non-quota immigrant by subdivision (e) of section 4, shall be for such time as may be by regulations prescribed...
Page 179 - Whoever knowingly makes under oath any false statement with respect to a material fact in any application, affidavit, or other document required by the immigration laws or regulations prescribed thereunder, or knowingly presents any such application, affidavit, or other document containing any such false statement — "Shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.