Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Immigration Act of 1924 makes it the duty of steamship companies to ascertain that all alien passengers coming to the United States are in possession of proper travel documents and the failure of an alien passenger to present upon arrival the appropriate visa, or re-entry permit, places the steamship company under a penalty of $1000. You can understand that if the Government is lax in requiring the steamship companies to comply with the provisions of the laws relat ing to the documentation of passengers that it would seriously interfere with the administration of the immigration laws. Miss Komarmicka apparently...
...immigration statistics for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, announced last week by Secretary of Labor James J. Davis. Since the passage of the Immigration Quota Law of 1924, which assigned a definite quota to the countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, it makes little difference in the alien population of the U. S. whether or not there is a bad potato crop in Ireland or a revolution in Hungary. Immigration has become a standpat, almost mechanical phenomenon. Compare the figures for the last two years...
...aliens admitted during the last fiscal year may be divided into three approximately equal groups: 1) natives of the quota countries; 2) natives of the nonquota countries, principally Canada and Mexico; 3) returning alien residents of the U. S., temporary visitors, transients, wives and children of U. S. citizens, etc. And, said Secretary Davis proudly: "About three-fourths of the present-day immigrant aliens are in the prime of life-16 to 44 years...
...result of all these cases investigated by the Senate Committee; the wind of suspicion shifted to Attorney General Daugherty. He was tried for contempt of court; and shortly afterwards M. A. Daugherty, and Eing were calloff to the stand on a bribery charge in the Alien Property Custodian question...
...solution lies in fuller enforcement. This can be accomplished by deporting all alien bootleggers who are caught, and by educating the public...