Chairman. I move to strike out the last word. I do this in order to call attention to a great abuse that is going on in the Immigration Service. Whatever the language of other acts relating to the admission of aliens into the United States may have been. the language of the act of 1907 is as plain as language can make it. Its clear intent was to exclude all aliens who are afflicted with a dangerous contagious disease. and yet. in spite of this act. which is in this respect only a reenactment of the act of 1903. the immigration officials have been in the habit. latterly at least. of admitting aliens to the United States who are afflicted with trachoma. a highly contagious disease. if they make affidavit that they have previously been in the United States and are returning to the domicile which they temporarily abandoned to visit a foreign country. I have here a statement from the Secretary of Commerce and Lab(.r showing that at the port of San Francisco from December. 1903. to March 31. 1910. 293 aliens. mostly orientals. who were certified by the examining surgeons to have been afflicted with trachoma. were permitted to land in San Francisco. notwithstanding the plain mandate of the statute. It seems to me that this is in open defiance of the statutes of the Uniled States.
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