No dispute arises upon such a proposition until we come to the extent of that principle and the details of propositions. A nation has a right to exclude paupers sent in upon it. That is not a voluntary immigration. it is an injurious one. It has a right. of course. to exclude insane and idiotic persons for the same reason. It has aright to exclude criminals. for they are sent here to our injury. and in order to relieve other nations from their own just burdens. If the British Government. instead of resolutely setting about the suppression of thugism. had offered a free passage to thugs to come here and settle with us. with their religion teaching the duty of murder. of course we should have had a right to forbid that kind of immigration. and we should have been quite justified in taking it as offensive action on the part of Great Britain. So in a state or war or prospecttf warthat justifies the exercise of extraordinary powers. inter armns silent loges. Laws national or international are set aside if we can defend ourselves. and any class of people may be excluded or any foreigners may be ordered to depart. the measure of the exercise of the power being only the degree of the necessity of selfprotection.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are described as paupers, insane, idiotic, and criminals.