Alien Seamen -insane Aliens--statements on the Various Immigration Problems: Hearings ...on H.R. 14273... Jan 30 and Feb. 6, 1923 |
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Page 653
... desirable future citizens and at the same time building up an unsound economic structure which is bound to react on Amer- ican industry and agriculture if continued in for any great length of time . WOULD ERECT BARRIER AGAINST ...
... desirable future citizens and at the same time building up an unsound economic structure which is bound to react on Amer- ican industry and agriculture if continued in for any great length of time . WOULD ERECT BARRIER AGAINST ...
Page 655
... desirable people from attempting to emigrate . It is well known , and those it would debar do not make the effort . Likewise it gives us immigrants largely from the cities when we would welcome more from the agricultural regions even ...
... desirable people from attempting to emigrate . It is well known , and those it would debar do not make the effort . Likewise it gives us immigrants largely from the cities when we would welcome more from the agricultural regions even ...
Page 657
... desirable for American citizens . I would also add a provision , that if , within a reasonable period of years an immigrant has not qualified and has not made application for citizenship , he then should be sent back to the country from ...
... desirable for American citizens . I would also add a provision , that if , within a reasonable period of years an immigrant has not qualified and has not made application for citizenship , he then should be sent back to the country from ...
Page 661
... desirable immigrants while it permits the entrance of undesirables . I believe the law should be amended so that restriction would be based , not on a numerical limitation , but on tests of the fitness of immigrants for the duties of ...
... desirable immigrants while it permits the entrance of undesirables . I believe the law should be amended so that restriction would be based , not on a numerical limitation , but on tests of the fitness of immigrants for the duties of ...
Page 662
... desirable citizens . Would it not be profitable to examine our- selves critically in our relation to these newcomers ? We need more of the spirit that has been manifested in Elizabeth , N. J. , where a few devoted men and women have ...
... desirable citizens . Would it not be profitable to examine our- selves critically in our relation to these newcomers ? We need more of the spirit that has been manifested in Elizabeth , N. J. , where a few devoted men and women have ...
Common terms and phrases
able seamen admission ALBERT JOHNSON alien insane alien seamen amendment American Legion American vessels Angel Island apply arrival Asia Minor bill birth rate board of special Bureau of Immigration census cent CHAIRMAN Chinese citizens citizenship clonorchiasis coming COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION common labor Congress crew desirable Doctor DAWES economic Ellis Island emigrant enter the United Europe European fact farm farmer Federal fiscal foreign born Government gration Greeks HURLEY immi Immigrant aliens immigration act immigration certificate immigration laws immigration officers immigration problem industry June 30 landing card matter mental Nation native needs ordinary alien percentage period permit person population port present law president Public Health Service question quota immigrant race RAKER regulations prescribed RISLEY SABATH seamen act Secretary of Labor shipping commissioner shore leave SIEGEL statement tion to-day TYRER United States Public VAILE wages Washington workers York
Popular passages
Page 619 - That any alien who, at any time after entering the United States, is found to have been at the time of entry, or to have become thereafter, a member of any one of the classes of aliens enumerated...
Page 623 - An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military establishment of the United States", approved May 18, 1917, or any.
Page 619 - 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 615 - An immigrant who continuously for at least two years immediately preceding the time of his application for admission to the United States...
Page 620 - ... sum the vessel shall be liable and may be seized and proceeded against by...
Page 609 - Service who shall have had at least two years' experience in the practice of their profession since receiving the degree of doctor of medicine, and who shall conduct all medical examinations and shall certify, for the information of the immigration officers and the boards of special inquiry hereinafter provided for, any and all physical and mental defects or diseases observed by said medical officers in any such alien ; or, should medical officers of the United States Public Health Service be not...
Page 609 - ... shall, upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor, be taken into custody and deported in the manner provided in the immigration act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Page 622 - That the provisions of this Act are in addition to and not in substitution for the provisions of the immigration laws.
Page 609 - That the physical and mental examination of all arriving aliens shall be made by medical officers of the United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, who shall have had at least two years...
Page 618 - States, or (2) in the transfer of territory from one country to another, such transfer being recognized by the United States...