The law excludes paupers. persons likely to become a public charge. professional beggars. persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease. and persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be. and are certified by the examining surgeons as being. mentally or physically defective. such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such aliensin earning a living. I do not know how that language can be made stronger. It is the provision of the act of 1907. which we carefully framed. in order to give the immigrant inspectors a broad discretionary power in debarring those who. in the absence of any specific disease. are so lacking in vitality that they are likely to become public charges. We also reject those who have committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude. polygamists. anarchists. prostitutes or women or girls coming to the United States for the purpose of prostitution or for other immoral purposes. and persons who attempt to bring in that class. The question may be asked how we enforce these laws. and do we in fact keep out the physically unfit?
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