Hispanic Immigration and Select Commission on Immigration's Final Report: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Census and Population of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, April 27, 28, 1981 |
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Page 53 - If present trends continue, the world in 2000 will be more crowded, more polluted, less stable ecologically, and more vulnerable to disruption than the world we live in now.
Page 1 - Washington that the bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment ". ' For approximately two decades, US immigration policy had labored under the archaic " National Origins
Page 34 - The migration or importation of such persons as any of the Stales now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
Page 31 - My opinion, with respect to emigration, is, that except of useful mechanics, and some particular descriptions of men or professions, there is no need of encouragement ; while the policy or advantage of its taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned ; for by so doing they retain the language, habits, and principles, good or bad, which they bring with them.
Page 33 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people ; a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Page 38 - Such a concept is utterly unworthy of our traditions and our ideals. It violates the great political doctrine of the Declaration of Independence that...
Page 13 - The total number of illegal residents in the United States for some recent year, such as 1978, is almost certainly below 6.0 million, and may be substantially less, possibly only 3.5 to 5.0 million.
Page 31 - My opinion with respect to emigration [immigration] is that except of useful mechanics and some particular descriptions of men and professions, there is no need of encouragement, while the policy or advantage of its taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for by so doing they retain their language, habits, and principles, good or bad, which they bring with them.
Page 54 - the most significant consequence of illegal immigration appears to be the creation of a two-class society." They argue that some significant job displacement and a general depression of wages and standards are the inevitable results of the presence of large numbers of workers without rights of citizenship who work at the bottom of the labor market and unwittingly "create and maintain substantial inequities in what is supposed to be an egalitarian society.
Page 46 - PREFERENCE SYSTEM. IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT OF 1952 (McCarran-Walter Act) 1. First preference: Highly skilled immigrants whose services are urgently needed in the United States and the spouse and children of such immigrants.