Immigration

Report of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, 1921

January 21, 2019 Sacred Liberty

House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization 1921 WARSAW. Concerning the general characteristics of aliens emigrating to the United States from Poland and the occupation or trade followed by them, reports Indicate’ such to be substantially as follows: (a) Physically deficient. (1) Wasted by disease and lack of food supplies. (2) Reduced to an unprecedented state of life during period of war as the result of oppression and want. (3) Present existence in squalor and filth. ( b ) Mentally deficient…

Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States Through Foreign Immigration and the Present State of the Naturalization Laws by Samuel Morse

January 21, 2019 Sacred Liberty

Samuel Morse 1835 Excerpts from Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States (1835). At the time, Samuel Morse was a well known painter and a prominent anti-Catholic writer. He would later go on to help invent the telegraph and the Morse Code. He also ran for mayor of New York City as a nativist, but lost badly. [W]e well know what is the nature of Roman Catholic ecclesiastical rule, — it is the double refined spirit of despotism,…