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 J. Edward Cassidy, executive director United States Air Force Association, Washington , D.C.

Collection:: Economics Books

NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 149 It was the condition of the country prior to the alien influx start- ng in 1850 which led to the above conclusions by Mr. Schultz, and t was the recognition of these facts 16 years later that resulted in the enactment of the immigration restriction of 1924 by Congress. Prior to the enactment of this legislation the Republican Party in 1920 laid down in its platform the necessity of restricting immigra- tion to numbers that could be fully assimilated, and also went on record that preference should be given to immigrants whose stand- ards are similar to ours. This declaration of principles certainly did not contemplate the preferential status given to the Nordic races under the 1890 census basis. The assumption that quotas based on national origins are unwork- able by inability to determine origins is, to my mind, unfounded. Authorities in general agree within a small percentage, and a basis which is 80 to 90 per cent current is certainly stable enough for a foundation, especially as compared with 1890 census quota basis, where not even a fair average is found. A general examination of authorities indicate that of our popula- tion as regards the Anglo-Saxon and Nordic stock is around 70 per sent Anglo-Saxon and 80 per cent Nordic. The presidential com- missions’ quotas of 1927 and 1928 recognize this ratio with a little less degree of divergence. On the average conclusion of authorities then the Anglo-Saxon quota should be around 70,000 and the Nordic quota around 30,000 whereas the 1890 census basis gives the Anglo- axon race but 84,000 and the Nordic races around 68,000, due to the fact that the latter is based on a period in which there was an abnor- mal influx of foreign born of which nearly one-third were aliens who had not signified their intentions of becoming citizens. The fifty-odd million parent stock (census 1920) is eliminated from consideration while one-third of the basic number on which the 1890 quota is founded, are citizens, not of this country but of other countries. The continuance of the quotas based on the foreign-born as indicated by the abnormal figures of the 1890 census, is a direct deprivation of tne parent stock of this country of their rights and a surrender of same to the control of citizens of other countries. In my opinion the national-origins basis is wholly sound, work- able and provides the only equitable basis for the restriction of immi- gration, and that further delay in putting into effect the immigration act of 1924, is detrimental to the public interest in general and to the preservation of the national integrity of the country which was sstablished under trying difficulties long before the last comers had arrived to enjoy the benefits of the sacrifices and hardships endured oy our parent Anglo-Saxon stock. Mr. Ridder and Representative McCormack referred to Germanic immigration. The census records show that up to 1832 the German immigrants were very meager, that the average was not to exceed 500 a year; that it increased in around 1854 to 215,009, and 1882 it had increased to 250,630; and the influx of the Germans from 1820 to 1923 was around 5,568,702. The foreign-born population in 1920, 47 per cent found in the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Massachusetts—27 per cent New York, 16 per cent Pennsylvania, 19 per cent in Illinois, and 27 per cent from Massachusetts, Of the foreign-born popula-

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