Modern Immigration: A View of the Situation in Immigrant Receiving CountriesJ.B. Lippincott, 1925 - 393 pages |
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... causes of immigration since these have been treated exhaustively by other writers and are generally understood . There is no obscure force at work in drawing people to the New World , whether in the Northern or Southern hemisphere . Man ...
... causes of immigration since these have been treated exhaustively by other writers and are generally understood . There is no obscure force at work in drawing people to the New World , whether in the Northern or Southern hemisphere . Man ...
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... cause of our most pressing urban problems . Since 1820 , over thirty - three mil- lions have come , and there are now in the country about seven- teen million persons of foreign birth . These with the children of the foreign born swell ...
... cause of our most pressing urban problems . Since 1820 , over thirty - three mil- lions have come , and there are now in the country about seven- teen million persons of foreign birth . These with the children of the foreign born swell ...
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... caused many middle - class German liberalists to seek homes in the United States , while the complete failure of the crop of 1845 drove the Irish in the same direction . The potato had become the main subsistence of the people since its ...
... caused many middle - class German liberalists to seek homes in the United States , while the complete failure of the crop of 1845 drove the Irish in the same direction . The potato had become the main subsistence of the people since its ...
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... but over 70,000 of these are in California , ' Abrogated by the " Selective Immigration Act of 1924 , ” signed by the President May 26 , 1924 . and this is the cause of the discriminatory alien land 24 MODERN IMMIGRATION.
... but over 70,000 of these are in California , ' Abrogated by the " Selective Immigration Act of 1924 , ” signed by the President May 26 , 1924 . and this is the cause of the discriminatory alien land 24 MODERN IMMIGRATION.
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... cause of the discriminatory alien land law found in that state . We are not concerned here with the bickerings of partisans ; they have no place in our study . Much has been said on both sides of the Japanese question , and an able pres ...
... cause of the discriminatory alien land law found in that state . We are not concerned here with the bickerings of partisans ; they have no place in our study . Much has been said on both sides of the Japanese question , and an able pres ...
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Page 325 - States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and, particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of which the alien may be at the time a citizen or subject.
Page 327 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he absolutely and entirely renounces and abjures all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of which he was before, a citizen or subject," which proceedings must be recorded by the clerk of the court.
Page 282 - That any American woman who marries a foreigner shall take the nationality of her husband. At the termination of the marital relation she may resume her American citizenship, if abroad, by registering as an American citizen within one year with a consul of the United States, or by returning to reside in the United States, or if residing in the United States at the termination of the marital relation, by continuing to reside therein.
Page 289 - The purpose of the Department of Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 234 - ... persons who are members of or affiliated with any organllation entertaining and teaching disbelief in or opposition to organized government, or who advocate or teach the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the government of the United...
Page 262 - ... any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted by others to come...
Page 238 - That in every case where an alien is excluded from admission into the United States, under any law or...
Page 260 - ... the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the government of the United States...
Page 280 - Act, and all duties and taxes collected in the United States upon articles coming from the Philippine Archipelago and upon foreign vessels coming therefrom, shall not be covered into the general fund of the Treasury of the United States, but shall be held as a separate fund and paid into the Treasury of the Philippine Islands, to be used and expended for the government and benefit of said Islands.
Page 324 - Territory; also all courts of record in any State or Territory now existing, or which may hereafter be created, having a seal, a clerk, and jurisdiction in actions at law or equity, or law and equity, in which the amount in controversy is unlimited.