We have today a Democratic administration and a Democratic Secretary of Labor. our former colleague. a splendid official. but he has very strong ideas on this subject of restriction and of education. He is drawing the line pretty harshly as it is. and his detinition of what constitutes one who is likely to become a public charge is much more rigid and strict than heretofore. and. in my humble judgment. much more rigid and strict than it ought to be. Those who are contract laborers are already excludable and those whon the surgeon has certified as having a defect. mental or physical. which may affect their ability to earn a living are excludable. Some of the surgeons at some of the ports. particularly at the port of Boston. seem to be exclusionists. because on the slightest excuse they seem to issue a certificate that a mimi has some physical or mental defect that debars him from entering this country. Those who are accompanying aliens who are excludable may themselves be excluded.
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