WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

enforced as part of such laws, and all the penal or other provisions of such laws
not inapplicable shall apply to and be enforced in connection with the provisions
 of this act. An alien, although admissible under the provisions of this
act, shall not be admitted to the United States if he is excluded by any provision
of the immigration laws other than this act, and an alien, although admissible
under the provisions of the immigration laws other than this act, shall not be
admitted to the United States if he is excluded by any provisions of this act.
[H. R. 8330, Seventy-first Congress, second session]
A BILL To limit the immigration of aliens to the United States sad for other purposes
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That this act may be cited as the “Immigration
act of 1930.”
Sec. 2. That subdivision (¢) of section 4 of the immigration act of 1924 ig
aereby repealed.
Sec. 8. That subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) of section 11, of the immigration
 act of 1924, shall not apply to the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland,
the Republic of Mexico, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Haiti, the Dominican
 Republic, the Canal Zone, or any independent country of Central or
South America.
Sec. 4. That for the purposes of this act all countries, dominions, or dependencies
 situated in North America, Central America, South America, and all
islands adjacent thereto, including the West Indies, shall be grouped within
geographical areas as immigration units in the following manner: (a) Canada
and Newfoundland; (b) Mexico and islands politically dependent; (e¢) Central
and South America and all islands adjacent thereto not comprised within subsection
 (d) of this section; and (d) the West Indies, including all islands so
characterized for statistical purposes in the annual report of the Commissioner
General of Immigration for 1929,
Spc. 5. That the maximum number of immigrants eligible for entry into the
United States under the immigration laws who may be admitted in any fiscal
year from each immigration unit deseribed in secfion 4 of this act shall not
exceed a number equal to three times the number of United States citizens who
have departed for such immigration unit for permanent residence in the fiscal
year 1929 as set forth in table 80 of the report of the Commissioner General of
Immigration for said fiscal year. For the purposes of this act the statistics set
forth in table 80 of the report of the Commissioner General shall be deemed conelusive
 as a basis for the computation of the annual quotas provided for in this
section.
Sec. 6. That the Secretary of Labor shall select from applicants for immigration
 visas as quota immigrants persons whose mental, moral, physical, and
hereditary characteristics shall tend to readily assimilate and develop a homogeneous
 population in the United States: Provided further, That after all preferences
 granted under immigration laws now in force shall have been accorded
bhe Secretary of Labor shall give a preference to applicants for visas who speak
and write the English language.
Sec. 7. That the quotas established by this act shall be reserved to aliens
born within the immigration units described in subsections (a), (b), (c), and
{d) of section 4 of this act and no other alien shall be admitted as a quota immigrant
 from any such immigration unit except under a quota established for the
country of his birth under the immigration laws in force at the time of the passage
of this act.
Sec. 8. No person shall be admitted to the United States as an immigrant
from any immigration unit specified in section 4 of this act otherwise than in
accordance with the provisions of this act except as to classes exempted from
the quotas by provisions of existing law as to countries under quota limitations
prior to the passage of this act: Provided further, That all provisions of existing
law as to the issue of immigration visas and for the regulation of immigration
and the entry of aliens from countries now under quota restrictions so far as
not in conflict with the provisions of this act shall be applicable to the immigration
 units specified in section 4 of this act and to immigration or entry of
aliens therefrom. .
See. 9. That the Secretary of Labor shall make the computations herein
required, and shall prescribe rules and regulations for the enforcement of the
provisions of this act; but all such rules and regulations, in so far as they relate
bo the administration of this act by consular officers, shall be prescribed by
the Secretary of State on the recommendation of the Secretary of Labor.