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... status in American society . Respectfully , Arthur S. Flemming , Chairman Stephen Horn , Vice Chairman Frankie M. Freeman Manuel Ruiz , Jr. Murray Saltzman Louis Nuñez , Staff Director ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Richard Baca , former General ...
... status in American society . Respectfully , Arthur S. Flemming , Chairman Stephen Horn , Vice Chairman Frankie M. Freeman Manuel Ruiz , Jr. Murray Saltzman Louis Nuñez , Staff Director ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Richard Baca , former General ...
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... status as recent immigrants in the United States , these various groups were extremely vulnera- ble and politically powerless and thus were ideally suited for the role of scapegoat for America's economic and social woes . Few were left ...
... status as recent immigrants in the United States , these various groups were extremely vulnera- ble and politically powerless and thus were ideally suited for the role of scapegoat for America's economic and social woes . Few were left ...
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... Status , Problems , and Contributions ( 1962 ) , p . 68 . " Carey McWilliams , Brothers Under the Skin ( rev . 1951 ) , pp . 101-03 . 15 Coolidge , Chinese Immigration , p . 188 . 16 Ch . 126 , 22 Stat . 58 ( 1882 ) . gration for all ...
... Status , Problems , and Contributions ( 1962 ) , p . 68 . " Carey McWilliams , Brothers Under the Skin ( rev . 1951 ) , pp . 101-03 . 15 Coolidge , Chinese Immigration , p . 188 . 16 Ch . 126 , 22 Stat . 58 ( 1882 ) . gration for all ...
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... status compared to aliens born in other parts of the world . . . Id . at 3336 . TABLE 2.1 1920-30 1931-40 1941-50 1951-60 1961-70 Mexico 511,648 22,319 13 Present Discrimination in the Immigration Laws Per-Country Limits Colonial Quotas.
... status compared to aliens born in other parts of the world . . . Id . at 3336 . TABLE 2.1 1920-30 1931-40 1941-50 1951-60 1961-70 Mexico 511,648 22,319 13 Present Discrimination in the Immigration Laws Per-Country Limits Colonial Quotas.
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... status in the Hemisphere . No more than 2,500 immigrants have entered the United States from the British West Indies in any one year . Henceforth , however , no more than 800 ( 100 for each of the 8 British territories ) may enter each ...
... status in the Hemisphere . No more than 2,500 immigrants have entered the United States from the British West Indies in any one year . Henceforth , however , no more than 800 ( 100 for each of the 8 British territories ) may enter each ...
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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.