If I had the time I could explain four different ways in which they might get into this country without reflecting in any degree upon our administration on our shores. But I want to say to the gentleman from Wisconsin and to the House that this is one of the objects of this bill. so that the criminals abroad will not have. as I find that some of them do have. as I am told by chiefs of police in foreign countries they do have. the idea that this is an asylum of refuge for criminals. It is not and ought not to be. and if you pass this law it will deter the criminal class from coming. As everybody in this House knows. I am in favor of sound. decent. ablebodied. and moral immigrants coming. and one of the best ways to protect them here and in coming is to proiide that the criminal and vicious shall be both barred.
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the criminals abroad will have the idea that this is an asylum of refuge for criminals