my country tis of thee

[Eric P]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barred_Zone_Act

On February 4, 1917, the United States Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) with overwhelming majority, overriding President Woodrow Wilson's December 14, 1916 veto. This act added to the number of undesirables banned from entering the country, including but not limited to, “idiots,” “feeble-minded persons,” “epileptics,” “insane persons,” alcoholics, “professional beggars,” all persons “mentally or physically defective,” polygamists, and anarchists. Furthermore, it barred all immigrants over the age of sixteen who were illiterate. The most controversial part of the law was the section that designated an “Asiatic Barred Zone,” a region that included much of eastern Asia and the Pacific Islands from which people could not immigrate. Previously, only the Chinese had been excluded from admission to the country.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/Asiatic_Barred_Zone.png

[Howard Alan Treesong]

is this up for renewal this year

[Joe Molotov]

It stated “that there shall be levied, collected, and paid a tax of $8 for every alien, including alien seamen...

 

[Howard Alan Treesong]

"Give me your strong, your rich,
Your smart and young ones, yearning to be great,
The shining wonders of your glowing shore.
Send these, the fruitful, well-learned ones to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"