Immigration : $b A world movement and its American significanceFairchild, Henry Pratt
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Immigration : $b A world movement and its American significance
Fairchild, Henry Pratt
Emigration and immigration; United States -- Emigration and immigration
SECTION 11. Any alien who comes into the United States in violation of
law may be deported within one year, and any alien who becomes a public
charge within one year after landing, from causes existing prior to this
landing, may be deported. The expenses of all deportations are to be
borne by the transportation agency responsible for bringing in the
immigrant, if that is possible, and if not, by the United States.
The items in this act particularly worthy of notice are the following:
extension of the excluded classes; prohibition of encouraging
immigration by advertising or solicitation, an attempt to cure two
serious evils, the success of which we shall have occasion to note
later; relatives and personal friends in this country no longer excepted
from the contract labor clause (this exception had almost vitiated the
former law); requirement of manifests; the complete assumption of the
work of inspection by the federal government; extension of the principle
of deportation to public charges.
Act of March 3, 1893. SECTION 1. Manifests greatly enlarged in detail.
SECTION 2. Alien passengers are to be listed in convenient groups of not
more than thirty each, and given tickets corresponding to their numbers
on the manifests. The master of the vessel must certify that he and the
ship’s surgeon have made an examination of all the immigrants before
sailing, and believe none of them to belong to the excluded classes.
SECTION 3. If the ship has no surgeon, examination must be made by a
competent surgeon hired by the transportation company.
SECTION 5. Immigrants who are not beyond any doubt entitled to land are
to be held for special inquiry by a board of not less than four
inspectors.
The noteworthy features in this law are examination at the expense of
the company at the port of embarkation, listing the immigrants in groups
of thirty, the institution of the boards of special inquiry.
August 18, 1894. Head tax is raised to $1.
March 2, 1895. The Superintendent of Immigration is hereafter to be
designated the Commissioner General of Immigration.
June 6, 1900. The Commissioner General of Immigration is made
responsible for the administration of the Chinese Exclusion Acts.
March 3, 1903. _Section 1._ The head tax is raised to $2, and is not to
apply to citizens of Canada, Cuba, or Mexico.
SECTION 2. The following are added to the debarred classes: epileptics,
persons who have been insane within five years previous, persons who
have had two or more attacks of insanity at any time previously;
professional beggars, anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate
the overthrow by force or violence of the government of the United
States, or of all government or of all forms of law, or the
assassination of public officials; prostitutes, and persons who procure
or attempt to bring in prostitutes or women for the purpose of
prostitution; those who, within one year, have been deported under the
contract labor clause.
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