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 42. Provisions regarding steerage accommodations.[106]
The especially noteworthy features of this act are the following:
further extension of the excluded classes; more stringent provisions
regarding immoral women, and their managers; the fine for bringing in
inadmissible aliens extended to other classes; the beginning of
statistics of departing aliens; appeal not allowed from the decision of
a board of special inquiry in case of mental or physical disability;
Immigration Commission authorized; Division of Information established.
The only important addition to immigration legislation since this act is
the act of March 26, 1910, by which there were added to the excluded and
deportable classes “persons who are supported by or receive in full or
in part the proceeds of prostitution.” The three-year limit for
deportation was removed as regards sexually immoral aliens. Closely
connected with this phase of the immigration statutes is a recent act
prohibiting the importation from one state to another of persons for the
purpose of prostitution. In accordance with an act just passed (1913)
the business of immigration and naturalization passes over to the newly
created Department of Labor.
We have seen that up to 1882 practically all the federal acts relating
to immigration had to do with the regulation of steerage conditions.
Until the year 1907 these acts, which were encouraging in tendency, were
always considered as a separate body of legislation from the real
immigration laws, which were primarily restrictive in character. In the
act of that year, however, the control of the steerage was included in
the immigration law, where it logically belonged. There had been one or
two important pieces of steerage legislation passed previous to this
time which we have not as yet noticed.
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