Whom We Shall Welcome: ReportU.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 319 pàgines |
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Whom We Shall Welcome: Report United States. President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization Visualització completa - 1953 |
Whom We Shall Welcome: Report United States. President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization Visualització completa - 1953 |
Whom We Shall Welcome: Report United States. President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization Visualització completa - 1953 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 240 - Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and whereas in the recognition of this principle this Government has freely received emigrants from all nations, and invested them with the rights of citizenship; and whereas it is claimed that such American...
Pàgina 154 - A genuinely impartial hearing, conducted with critical detachment, is psychologically improbable if not impossible, when the presiding officer has at once the responsibility of appraising the strength of the case and of seeking to make it as strong as possible.
Pàgina 275 - The greatest vice of the present quota system, however, is that it discriminates, deliberately and intentionally, against many of the peoples of the world.
Pàgina 155 - For this same reason, the advocate — the agency's attorney who upheld a definite position adverse to the private parties at the hearing — cannot be permitted to participate after the hearing in the making of the decision. A man who has buried himself on one side of an issue is disabled from bringing to its decision that dispassionate judgment which Anglo-American tradition demands of officials who deny questions
Pàgina 92 - We in this country have been so imbued with the idea of democracy, or the equality of all men, that we have left out of consideration the matter of blood or natural born hereditary mental and moral differences. No man who breeds pedigreed plants and animals can afford to neglect this thing...
Pàgina 269 - All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government are authorized and directed to cooperate with the...
Pàgina 281 - In these and many other respects, the bill raises basic questions as to our fundamental immigration and naturalization policy, and the laws and practices for putting that policy into effect. Many of the aspects of the bill which have been most widely criticized in the public debate are reaffirmations or elaborations of existing statutes or administrative procedures. Time and again, examination discloses that the revisions of existing law that would be made by the bill are intended to solidify some...
Pàgina 92 - Europe, contained a large and increasing number of the weak, the broken and the mentally crippled of all races drawn from the lowest stratum of the Mediterranean basin and the Balkans, together with hordes of the wretched, submerged populations of the Polish Ghettos. Our jails, insane asylums and almshouses are filled with this human flotsam and the whole tone of American life, social, moral and political has been lowered and vulgarized by them.
Pàgina 92 - These new immigrants were no longer exclusively members of the Nordic race as were the earlier ones who came of their own impulse to improve their social conditions. The transportation lines advertised America as a land flowing with milk and honey and the European governments took the opportunity to unload upon careless, wealthy and hospitable America the sweepings of their jails and asylums. The...