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

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of J. Edward Cassidy, executive director United States Air Force Association, Washington , D.C.

Collection:: Economics Books

NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 147 basis is unsound, as it gives late comers a preferential status over the parent stock of this country. No one can deny that the foundations rf this country were Anglo-Saxon and that it is an Anglo-Saxon country by an overwhelming preponderance. All authorities of im- portance agree that the parent Anglo-Saxon stock composed 40 to 80 per cent of the population of 1790. The selection of the 1890 census as a basis for temporary use in the restriction of immigration was alleged to be due to the fact that it was more equitable than the census of other periods. This can not be sub- stantiated as the foreign born coming into this country during the period 1880-1890 was far above the average, excluding the abnormal period of 1850-1860, as the foreign born coming into this country setween 1880 and 1890 was 39.1 per cent as against an average of 27 per cent for the 50-year period starting in 1860. The increase in foreign born coming into this country between 1850 and 1910 is as ollows : Per cent ii i i pie; So eee. 12.0 [EE cree 3007 If the period of 1910 to 1920 had been used in arriving at the average the percentage would have been an average of a little more than half of the census of 1890 now being used as a basis. Another excellent reason why the immigrant quota on the basis of foreign born shown by the 1890 census is wholly unsound lies in the fact that the determination of the quota is based on a group of which approximately one-third are aliens who have neither become natural- ‘zed nor indicated their intentions of becoming naturalized. The census of 1890 shows a total of 13,712,754 foreign born in this country of which 4,364,909 were aliens. These aliens who have neither become naturalized nor even signified their intentions of oecoming citizens are given full consideration in the determination of quotas while the parent stock responsible for the founding of this country are wholly excluded from consideration. In other words, 1 large percentage of the basis of determination of quotas is in the hands of aliens who have not enough interest in the country to become sitizens, and even the bulk of the other group consists of late arrivals 1s a large majority has come into this country since 1850. The great increase in foreign born of 82.8 per cent during the period of 1850— 1860 was brought about largely by three causes—the famine in Ire- land, discovery of gold in California, and the failure of a revolu- tionary movement in Germany. It is to be especially noted that the great increase in foreign born on which the present quota method is based did not start until 1850 or until long after the parent stock of this country had founded a new nation, and endured the sacrifices and hardships involved: The influx of foreign born came not because of a desire to build up the new nation but because they desired to share the wealth and ad- vantages resulting from the rR emis efforts and sacrifices of the parent stock. What I have termed the late comers did not appear in this country until after the country had been established and in a prosperous sondition, and they did not share in the hardships and privations

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