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68TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPT. 350,
18t session. I Part 2.
RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRA:I6N.
MARcH 27, 1924.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole
state of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Mr. SABATH, from the Committee on Immigration and Naturaliza-
tion, submitted the following
MINORITY REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 7995.]
The undersigned members of the Committee on Immigration and
Naturalization of the House of Representatives are unable to concur
in the report and recommendations submitted by the majority of
the committee with respect to H. R. 7995, entitled A bill to limit
the imiiration of aliens into the United States, and for other
purposes. The bill so reported is avowedly intended to restrict
immigration, and is confessedly discriminatory in its operation.
The majority in their report No. 176, accompanying H. R. 6540
(now superseded by H. R. 7995), declared that it is not the purpose
of well-meaning citizens to speak of any foreign peoples as undesir-
able, and correct4y added that the undesirable are the criminal,
the insane, the pauper, and the other classes excluded by section 3
of the act of 1917; substantially the same remark is repeated by the
majority in its most recent report.
The act of February 5, 1917, which is known as the basic immi-
gration law, is in its essential nature a selective immigration law.
It eliminates those who are mentally, morally, and physically unfit,
those who are likely to become a public charge, anarchists and
others opposed to organized government and who hold doctrines
subversive to law and good order. The classes which come within
these categories are numerous and are carefully defined in the act.
A proper administration and enforcement of that statute would
admit such immigrants only as are desirable according to the accurate
meaning of that word and in the sense in which the term was used
in the majority report, No. 176 above referred to. It is important
to emphasize this Tact because of the general prevalence of the idea
that immigration should be selective. In their latest report the
majority recognizes the futility of the idea prevalent in some quarters
that immigrants can be hand picked.
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