Undocumented Workers: Implications for U.S. Policy in the Western Hemisphere : Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session ...

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Page 394 - All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
Page 394 - It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin...
Page 384 - Our discussion will be adequate If It has as much clearness as the subject-matter admits of, for precision is not to be sought for alike in all discussions, any more than In all the products of the crafts.
Page 387 - General shall have power without warrant — (1) to interrogate any alien or person believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in the United States ; (2) to arrest any alien who in his presence or view is entering or attempting to enter the United States in violation of any law or regulation...
Page 384 - We must be content, then, in speaking of such subjects and with such premisses to indicate the truth roughly and in outline, and in speaking about things which are only for the most part true and with premisses of the same kind to reach conclusions that are no better.
Page 35 - And where it does occur, the process is likely to require many decades in most developing countries. During that time, rapid population growth slows development and widens the gap between rich and poor nations and between the rich and poor people within nations. Improvement of the agricultural sector is the key to economic development of most developing nations. Yet, it is in the agricultural areas of these nations that human fertility is usually highest. The result is either outmigration or more...
Page 389 - 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 167 - Mr. Chairman, Members of the Subcommittee: I want to thank you for the opportunity to present testimony on behalf of S. 2838, "The Manpower Training Act (MTA)".
Page 392 - At the same time they voiced concern that the, "...process will then inescapably discriminate against citizens of Mexican ancestry and Mexican aliens lawfully in this country..." and expressed that, for law in this country to "...tolerate use of one's ancestry as probative of possible criminal conduct is repugnant under any circumstances.
Page 387 - ... to arrest any alien in the United States if he has reason to believe that the alien so arrested is in the United States in violation of any such law or regulation and is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained for his arrest...

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