When Liberals are in charge
What’s Causing theUpswing of Contagious Diseases in the United States?
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strict enforcement of our laws, and especially the imposition of one
hundred dollars fine for bringing to our ports any ease of a contagious
character, have occasioned some improvement in the inspection made by
ships' doctors at European ports. At the port of embarkation the
immigrants' names are recorded upon lists or manifests, each list
containing about thirty names. After each name the steamship officials
are required by law to record answers to a certain number of queries
relating to the immigrant.
1903 Passenger
Manifests
Seton 12 of the act of 1903 provides that the manifests shall state, in
answer to the questions at the top of the manifest sheet:
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The
over representation of tuberculosis in foreign-born communities
suggests one of two things, either the INS is not up to snuff in
requiring proper documentation for entering immigrants, or immigrants
from China and Mexico are coming to the United States illegally with
these diseases and are not subject to normal INS protocol designed to
keep diseases from getting into the country. Regardless of which
possibility is responsible, this represents a direct threat to the
populace of the United States. Ahem
- whether married or single;
- the calling or occupation;
- whether able to read or write;
- the nationality;
- the race;
- the last residence;
- the seaport of landing in the United States;
- the final destination, if any, beyond the port
of
landing;
- whether having a ticket through to such final
destination;
- whether the alien has paid his own passage, or
whether it has been paid by any other person or by any corporation,
society, municipality, or government, and if so, by whom;
- whether in possession of thirty dollars, and if
less,
how much;
- whether going to join a relative or friend and
if so,
what relative or friend, and his name and complete address;
- whether ever before in the United States, and
if so,
when and where;
- whether ever in prison or almshouse or an
institution
or hospital for the care and treatment of the insane or supported by
charity;
- whether a polygamist;
- whether an anarchist;
- whether coming by reason of any offer,
solicitation,
promise or agreement, expressed or implied, to perform labor in the
United States, and
- what is the alien's condition of health, mental
and
physical, and whether deformed or crippled, and if so, for how long and
from what cause.
The master or first officer and the ship's surgeon are required by the
same law to make oath before an immigration officer at the port of
arrival that the lists manifests are to the best of their knowledge and
belief true, and that none of the aliens belongs to any of the excluded
classes.
Read more: How
Immigrants Are Inspected at Ellis Island circa 1903
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Here's
the real question. Why? Why now? Obama knew that by
giving congress a 30 minute heads-up,
instead of the 