We already exclude diseased people. criminal classes. paupers. and the like. When they come to our shores we do not wait to have a man tried by I jury here to see whether or not he is diseased. or whether he is a criminal. or a pauper. We give to the Commissioner of Immigration the right to say." Go back home on that ship." We have absolutely. unequivocally. and unappealably the right to do that. and we are obliged to do it. As to these foreign immigrants. or intruders. if you please to call them suchand I doif we are to come down to extending to them all the rights. privileges. and benefits of American citizenship we may do very wrong.
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