Speech #680051881

I give the following figures from reports of the Commissioners General of Inligration for the fiscal years 1918 to 1923. ilelusive: For 1918: Number of appeals. 3.618. number debarred. 2.555. 70 per cent. and number adusitted on bond or otherwise. 1.063. 30 per cent. (Rept. 1918. p. 158.) For 1919: Number of appeals. 4.121 . number debarred. 3.109. 75 per cent. anti number admitted on bond or otherwise. 1.012. 25 per cent. (Rept. 1919. p. 194.) For 1920: Number of appeals. 4.812. number debarred. 2.950. 61 per cent. and number admsitted 0n bond or otherwise. 1.862. 1 89 per cent. (Rept. 1920. pp. 204205.) For 1921: Number of appeals. 7.422. number debarred. 3.541. 48 per cent. and number admitted on bond or otherwise. 3.881. 52 per cent. (Rept. 1921. pp. 124125.) For 1922: Number of appeals. 12.828. number debarred. 5.244. 41 per cent. and number admitted on bond or otherwise. 7.584. 59 per cent. (Rept. 1922. p. 121.) For 1923: Nunsber of appeals. 14.506. number debarred. 6.247 . 44 per cent. and number admitted on bond or otherwise. 8.259. 157 per cent. (Rept. 1928. p. 137.) This summary of the results of appeals from excluding oP ders made at the ports shows an increasing percentage of admissions on appeal. running from 30 per cent and 25 per cent for 1918 and 1919. respectively. up to 59 per cent and 5T per cent for 1922 and 1923. respectively. These appeals are usially ex parte proceedings in the absence of both the alien and the physician who certifies that lie is defective or diseased. In fact. about all that the departmental assistant usually has before him when lie reviews the excluding decision is a brief paper record and a foreign bloc representative or a politician with a pull." In the same connection. and as showing some of the results of this serlous failure to exclude or deport excludable or deportable aliens. I quote further from the statement of the National Republican Club of New York. appearing in the hiearings. Your COlmmittee recommends as follows: 1. That the Federal Government (a) through Congress by the cnactinent of law and the appropriation of sufficient funds. and through Its proper officers in the adoption of methods and regulations. provide for and secure an adetiuate and competent medical examination of immigrants before entry. and a more efficient and rigid enforceenit of the immigration law. particularly its regards the exclusion of excludable aliens and the deportsa(ion. without delay. of aliens legally shown by the authorities of the State of New Tork to be deportable. (c) Regarding cancellation of warrants of arrest. that tile Secretary of Labor. or such other officer as siall have the power to cancel such warrants. shall give due sotiee. with aln opportunity to be heard. either in person or by letter. to the department or officer Issuing the certificate. before a warralit. either of arrest or of deportation. Is canceled. Approximate percentage. ) :) The result of this miscarriage of our lawsof this folly In our failure to enforce themis that we are enlarging to an alarming extent the proportion of our people who are mentally. morally. or physically defective. In support of this proposition I call your attention to the following: The Abstract of the Census of 1920. page 97. shows that 65.3 per cent of our population Is native born of native parentage and 34.7 per cent of the population is foreign born or of foreignborn or mixed parentage. Yet Doctor Laughlin. who made a survey of all the State and Federal Institutions of the United States. found that the 65.3 per cent native born of native parentage furnished only 55.1 per cent of the Inmates of institutions for those who are so defective or derelict as to require their being kept in custody. while the 34.7 per cent of f9reignborn or mixed parentage furnished 44.9 per cent of the inmates of these Institutions.. (Hearings. 67th Cong.. serial 7C. p. 751.) The same bad tendency is shown by kindred figures from the State of New York. whose population is 72.8 per cent native born and 27.2 per cent foreign born. but this 27.2 per cent foreign born furnishes 43.1 per cent of the inmates of the institutions for the Insane. while the 72.8 per cent nativeborn population of that State furnishes only 56.9 per cent of the inmates of its Insane asylums. (Abstract of Census of 1920. p. 103. testimony of Doctor Dawes. Hearings. 68th Cong.. serial 1A. p. 497.) The number of the mentally diseased in care of public institutions throughout the United States has increased enormously during the last 40 years. I quote an excerpt from a statement by Dr.