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...present immigration laws are sufficient: Pub. Op. iii. 249: No. Am. Rev. vol. 152, pp. 27-37 (Jan. '91); Nation, xiv. 518; Stat. at L. xxvi. 1084 - 1086. - (a) Laws now exclude paupers, criminals, insane people and persons liable to become a public charge as well as imported labor...
Best general references: R. M. Smith, Emigration and Immigration; Forum XI. 635 (Aug. '91), XIV. 110, (Sept. '92): And. Rev. (Mar. '88). (Aug. '88); Yale Rev. I. 130, (Aug. '92): Cong. Rec. '89-90, pp. 3326, Ford Com. Report on the Importation of Contract Laborers. ('88) House Misc...
...social grounds: - The proportion of paupers, diseased and criminal, is great. Messages and Documents, ('80-91) pp. 85: - (b) On economic grounds: - (1) No longer needed to develop the country. Pop. Sci. Mo., XLI. 762. Oct. '92 - (2) They lower wages and the standard of living; Forum XIV. 113. (Sept. '92): - (3) Unskilled occupations already overcrowded. Smith, 117. - (c) On political grounds. - (1) The Immigrants do not understand our institutions. Bryce Am. Com. I. 634. - (2) They become tools of Machine politicians; Smith. 13. - (3) They form communities by themselves, Bryce, Am. Com. II. 725. - (d) The dangers are increasing...
...high tax would stop undesirable immigration: And. Rev. XIV. 260. (Mar. '88): - (a) It would make impossible the sending of; - (1) paupers, - (2) convicts, (3) contract laborers, - (4) shiftless and ignorant persons whom agents of steamship companies induce to come: Yale Rev. (Aug. '92). - (b) The Italians and Slavs can barely raise the passage money; they could not raise the tax: Ford Com. Rep. pt. 2, pp. 112, - (c) Tax would not keep out the desirable immigrants such as, - (1) Germany, - (2) Sweds, - (3) Irish, for they bring enough money to pay the tax; Schmoller's Jahrbucher...
...continuance of immigration desirable: Forum, xiv. 601 (Jan. '93); Pub. Op. iii. 251; ibid, xiv. 297 (Dec. 31, '92). - (a) There is need of laborers in the South and West: Forum xiii. 366; No. Am. Rev. vol 134, p. 350 (Apr. '82); ibid. vol. 154, p. 424 (Apr. '92). - (b) Voluntary immigrants thrifty and active: And. R. ix. 251; Pol. Sci. L. iii. 61. - (c) Opposition to the present class of immigrants is groundless Forum, xiv. 602 (Jan. '93) Nation, xiv. 519. - (d) The troublesome and mischievous immigrants are a small part of the whole: Nation, xiv...