Immigration LawsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1921 |
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able seaman Act approved act of February admitted afflicted agent appeal application arrest board of special bureau Canada Canadian certificate citizens classes collector of customs commissioner of immigration consignee Department of Labor deportation deposit detained detention District of Columbia duty enforcing enter the United examination excluded expenses February 20 foreign contiguous territory foreign country foreign port Form furnished Government gration head tax hereby hospital immi immigrant inspector immigration act immigration of aliens immigration official immigration station imprisonment inspection inspector in charge insular possessions land manifest master ment naturalized citizen officer in charge owner passengers passport payment person port of arrival port of entry prescribed prostitution Provided further public charge regulations residence Rule 28 seaman seaports Secretary of Labor special inquiry Stat SUBD subdivision surgeon thereof tion transit transportation company transportation line tuberculosis unlawful unless vessel violation wages WHITE-SLAVE TRAFFIC ACT woman or girl
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Page 93 - Columbia, any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose...
Page 98 - Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 31 - States or of all forms of law, or (2) the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers (either of specific individuals or of officers generally) of the Government of the United States...
Page 92 - That any American woman who marries a foreigner shall take the nationality of her husband. At the termination of the marital relation she may resume her American citizenship, if abroad, by registering as an American citizen within one year with a consul of the United States, or by returning to reside in the United States, or if residing in the United States at the termination of the marital relation, by continuing to reside therein.
Page 32 - ... any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted by others to come...
Page 18 - That in every case where an alien is excluded from admission into the United States, under any law or...
Page 74 - ... anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States, or of all government, or of all forms of law, or the assassination of public officials...
Page 5 - ... who have been induced, assisted, encouraged, or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment, whether such offers or promises are true or false, or in consequence of agreements, oral, written or printed, express or implied, to perform labor in this country of any kind, skilled or unskilled...
Page 73 - ... any alien who is hereafter sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one year or more because of conviction in this country of a crime involving moral turpitude...
Page 6 - All aliens over sixteen years of age, physically capable of reading, who can not read the English language, or some other language or dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish...