National origins provision of immigration law

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Identifikator:: 1796380105

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-196168

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: National origins provision of immigration law

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: III, 171 S

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of John B. Trevor, National Immigration Restriction Conference, New York City

Collection:: Economics Books

14 NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW EXAMINATION OF IMMIGRANTS ABROAD Before concluding this report, it is necessary to deal briefly with two other problems which have not been solved, or, at least, in the case of the first to be discussed, only partially covered by administrative action. The members of the chamber of commerce are probably aware that through the initiative of the Secretary of Labor, great advances have been made in thé examination of immigrants abroad, which represents the accomplishment in part of an aspira- tion embodied in reports adopted by the chamber of commerce in years past. The full benefit of this system, however, is apparently not to be obtained with- out legislative direction, that the applicants for admission be not merely examined abroad, but that the best material be selected within each national quota and the priority rule be abolished, Tt is further suggested that the selective principle within each national quota be extended to permit the Secre- tary of Labor, in the case of heads of families, to secure preference in the assignment of future visas for members of acceptable immigrant families, IMMIGRANTS FROM MEXICO AND SOUTH AMERICA The second matter, completely unsolved, relates to the influx of a hetero- geneous mass of immigrants from Mexico, the West Indies, and South America, Great numbers of these people have spread as far Northeast as Cleveland, Detroit, and Pittsburgh. No one familiar with sanitary conditions in many of the countries south of the Ric Grande can fail to recognize the fact that this class of immigrant constitutes a perpetual menace to the health of the com- munity. . It is wholly illogical to limit the European entrants and admit these people outside the quota. The executive committee is well aware of the eco- nomic arguments which have been, and will be, advanced, by certain elements in our population, who seek to profit by peon labor in the field or in the shop, but the committee is confident from the previous action of this chamber that all its members recognize that national welfare transcends any temporary incon- venience or selfish consideration. The United States is not a mere geographical expression for an area devoted to intensive economic exploitation, but a nation of people in the aggregate inspired by high ideals of service to mankind at home or abroad. It is for the preservation of these ideals and our institutions and government, handed on to us in trust by our forbears, the founders of the Republic, that the executive committee urges the adoption of the following preamble and resolutions : PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS Whereas the members of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York are advised that alien groups are seeking by political pressure upon indi- vidual representatives of the people to influence the action of Congress, in behalf of special interests of their own, or of the Nation from which they have sprung ; and Whereas the members of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York believe these activities tend to the perpetuation of race solidarity and political feuds or jealousies, wholly foreign to our national interests; and Whereas the American people have throughout the history of the Nation accepted immigrants on a basis of equality, one with another and with them- selves, it is expedient that the old and the new stocks be treated on a basis of this same equality in the apportionment of whatever immigration quotas may be considered assimilable in the future; and Whereas it is illogical and inequitable to apply the quota system to the countries of Europe whence the hulk of our population has heen derived and leave wide open our gates to immigrants from the independent countries of North and South America and the Islands of the West Indies: Therefore he it Resolved, That the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York indorses the immigration act of 1924 and urges that the immigration quotas be revised in accordance with the final report of the committee of Government experts, and put into effect July 1, 1928; and be it further Resolved, That it is also the sense of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York that the quota system embodied in the immigration act of 1924 be extended by supplementary legislation to the independent countries of North and South America and the islands of the West Indies; and be it further

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