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Politics : Immigration and its Reform

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To: DallasKevin who wrote (6)	5/1/2013 12:49:59 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) of 270

From your headings; <<<<<<immigrant ancestors who arrived between 1790 and 1924 would not be allowed in today.>>>>> I have no horse in your issue except to point out the error that prior to 1924 there were indeed times when it was very hard to get into America if you didn't fit the prescriptions that Congress wanted to see let in. That issue came to a head in the years just after WWI. ..........In the later years of the time frame you list there were very strict quotes. The reason that boatloads weren't sent back was because the shipping company was responsible for the person until they were admitted. If the person wasn't admitted, the immigrant was then the responsibility of the Shipping Company who had to pay for the return voyage. Obviously the shipping company was careful as to who they let board their ships. If you were old you didn't get in, sick you didn't get in, not able to work you didn't get in, not enough cash on you to support yourself until you got a job you didn't get in, Chinese you didn't get in and so on.

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