National origins provision of immigration law

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Identifikator:: 1796380105

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

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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 Dr. Herbert Friedenwald, Washington, D.C.

Collection:: Economics Books

68 NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW Doctor FriepeNwarp. I can not answer your question. I do not know enought about it. Senator Reep. Just to sum it up, then, Doctor, your personal opinion is that you do not believe in the Literacy test; you do not believe in the numerical limitation of Immigration; you do not know whether it is fair or unfair to give Germany a quota 50 per cent bigger than Great Britain and northern Ireland, and you do not know any method that you think is preferable to the national origins, but you do not like that. That summarizes your feelings? Doctor FriepENwarp, N. 0; it does not in any way, shape, or form. I prefer to summarize my views for myself, if you want my views; and I have not stated anything along that line. and if I did, IT did it by inadvertence. Senator Reep. Where is the error in what I sald, in that summary ¢ Doctor Frieveswarp. I said as to the literacy test that I had grave doubt of the efficacy of the literacy test, and my answer to you would be along that same line. I do not knew, Senator, I am not prepared to state it. I said to you I have not enough informa- tion, and for that reason, I say that it is a most important question, important to every citizen of the United States. Now, if you, after studying all these years, have not determined that the present basis is correct, then let us all get together, all the people who are interested in immigration or want to restrict it or want to allow the bars to be lowered more than they are now, and see if there is not some basis on which we can come to an agreement or an understanding. Senator Reep. Doctor, I have not the slightest doubt about it. I think the national-origins method is workable. I think it is fair, and I think it is high time it should be into effect, Doctor FriepENwaLD. Then, I presume if you can convince enough other Members of Congress to agree with you, it will go through. As I said before, I think it ig unworkable, and one of the prin- cipal reasons is this: it is so indefinite; it can be made to mean so much or so little, that after all, its operation will be in the hands of a group in the Department of Commerce, Department of Labor, or the Immigration Bureau. Now, then, I do not know but what some designing people might be able to influence, perfectly legitimately, by argument the man in charge of the interpretation and the operation of the law, to make it operate entirely differently from what it is intended by the men who enacted it. Senator Reep. Have you seen the quotas they have tabulated in the report of 1928¢ Doctor Friepexwarp. I have seen them; that is all T can say. Senator Rep. Can you point to any one of them that is not there or is incorrect? Doctor Friepenwarp. No; I can not, sir. Because I have not ex- amined them with sufficient care. Senator Rep. I think that is all, Mr. Chairman. The Cramrman. At this point I will put in the record various responses made by people who were sent invitations to be here, with views presented by those people. (The communications referred to are as follows:)

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