Session #67 · 1921–23

Speech #670283034

No. really I do not. CAll the expenses of the Labor Department and more are paid from the head tax taken from these aliens. We have set up a law giving every one of them a right of appeal. When Congress fails to uphold that law. when it can not provide money to hire secretaries to act on the appeals. to pay the judges of the very immigration court that we have provided. then we had better abolish the whole system. Now. I am sincere about that. We must not enact a law authorizing these appeals and then fail to provide either tho means or the men to take care of the appeals. . A great deal is being made of the fact that some appeals are on account of the quota law. Perhaps there should be no appeals- from an exact quota. but you must remember that the boundaries of the countries have been changed so that quotas have not been exact. and yet the quota appeals are but a small part of the labors of the Secretary of Labor. There are many appeals of cases of persons likely to becepe public charges.
Keywords matched
immigration quota law head tax

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ALBERT JOHNSON
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
WA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
670283034
Paragraph
#0
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