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... residents , particularly those citizens and aliens who are racially and culturally identifiable with major immigrant groups . Although the United States has been variously characterized as " a nation of immigrants " and a " melting pot ...
... residents , particularly those citizens and aliens who are racially and culturally identifiable with major immigrant groups . Although the United States has been variously characterized as " a nation of immigrants " and a " melting pot ...
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... resident aliens , particularly those who were racially and ethnically identifiable with major immigrant groups ... residents suffer violations of their civil rights . For the undocumented alien , " the system offers a much harsher ...
... resident aliens , particularly those who were racially and ethnically identifiable with major immigrant groups ... residents suffer violations of their civil rights . For the undocumented alien , " the system offers a much harsher ...
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... resident aliens , and undocumented aliens are to receive the full measure of benefits and legal protections to which they are entitled under our system of government . By adopting these changes , America's " old " immigrants can embark ...
... resident aliens , and undocumented aliens are to receive the full measure of benefits and legal protections to which they are entitled under our system of government . By adopting these changes , America's " old " immigrants can embark ...
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... residents of Chinese ancestry , the provisions of these exclusion acts were usually upheld by judicial decisions ... resident prior to the passage of the act . That requirement was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in Fong Yue ...
... residents of Chinese ancestry , the provisions of these exclusion acts were usually upheld by judicial decisions ... resident prior to the passage of the act . That requirement was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in Fong Yue ...
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... residents of that nationality living in the country in 1910.34 The total annual immigration allowable in any one year was set at 350,000 . Western Hemisphere aliens were exempt from the quota if their country of origin was an ...
... residents of that nationality living in the country in 1910.34 The total annual immigration allowable in any one year was set at 350,000 . Western Hemisphere aliens were exempt from the quota if their country of origin was an ...
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Page 68 - Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Page 108 - Sec. 19. That at any time within five years after entry, any alien who at the time of entry was a member of one or more of the classes excluded by law; any alien who shall have entered or who shall be found in the United States in violation of this Act, or in violation of any other law of the United States...
Page 80 - States; (3) within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States, to board and search for aliens any vessel within the territorial waters of the United States...
Page 104 - Such alien may be released under bond in the penalty of not less than $500 with security approved by the Attorney General on condition that such alien shall be produced when required as a witness and for deportation, and on such other conditions as the Attorney General may prescribe.
Page 108 - But this court has never held, nor must we now be understood as holding, that administrative officers, when executing the provisions of a statute involving the liberty of persons, may disregard the fundamental principles that inhere in "due process of law" as understood at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. One of these principles is that no person shall be deprived of his liberty without opportunity, at some time, to be heard, before such officers in respect...
Page 108 - ... due process of law" as understood at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. One of these principles is that no person shall be deprived of his liberty without opportunity, at some time, to be heard, before such officers in respect of the matters upon which that liberty depends — not necessarily an opportunity upon a regular, set occasion, and according to the forms of judicial procedure, but one that will secure the prompt, vigorous action contemplated by Congress, and at the same time...
Page 1 - Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Page 108 - We would hardly attribute to Congress a purpose to be less scrupulous about the fairness of a hearing necessitated by the Constitution than one granted by it as a matter of expediency. " Indeed, to so construe the Immigration Act might again bring it into constitutional jeopardy. When the Constitution requires a hearing, it requires a fair one, one before a tribunal which meets at least currently prevailing standards of impartiality.
Page 100 - Aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence who temporarily proceeded abroad voluntarily and not under an order of deportation, and who are returning to a lawful unrelinquished domicile of seven consecutive years...
Page 68 - The Constitution does not explicitly mention any right of privacy. In a line of decisions, however, going back perhaps as far as Union Pacific R. Co. v. Botsford XI 891), the Court has recognized that a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy, does exist under the Constitution.