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Presents several letters to the editor regarding different previous articles and various socio-political developments and issues. Comments on a critical note concerning ownership for issuing paper money; Information regarding questions of Italian and Chinese immigration; Criticism of comments made by Californian writers on the Chinese.

This article presents information on socio-political conditions in the world during 1889. The journal "New York Press," whose editor was appointed by U.S. President Benjamin Harrison Superintendent of the Census, has done the public a service in showing that any editor who is appointed to office must either abandon or muzzle his paper. The conscription for the great continental armies, with the heavy taxation necessary for their maintenance, combined with the wonderful cheapening and quickening of travel and the increased knowledge of foreign countries diffused by the newspapers, is apparently rousing the Latin races into an emigrating activity.

It may not be known in the U.S. that among the reactionary countries of Europe Hungary furnishes the greatest number of political émigrés. Tens of thousands of professionals as well as laborers fled to the neighboring countries rather than submit to the autocracy of Admiral Horthy and Captain Gombos. To give an idea of the number and the intellectual qualities of the émigrés it should be mentioned that in Vienna alone they have eight papers of their own, two of which are dailies. Another characteristic fact of the emigration is that the number of books printed in the Hungarian language, treating political subjects, published in Vienna, exceeds by far the number of books of the same kind published in the capital of Hungary.

This article reports on the recent political developments around the world and the United States. The official deadline for immigration into Palestine under the White Paper passed at midnight on March 31, leaving both British and American policy toward the Jewish homeland in a state of complete confusion. The clarity seemingly achieved by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's forthright statement that the American government has never given its approval of the "White Paper of 1939" has been largely obliterated by his subsequent support of General Marshall's contention that the issue should not be pressed now for military reasons.

Ricardo Sanchez, a Puerto Rican migrant, came from where the sugar cane is higher than a man to the plaza in old San Juan where the buses marked "Aeropuerto" stop. He came with his wife and two daughters and three suitcases and a paper bag and the promise from a brother in Harlem, New York City, that there was work to be found in "fabrica." The work in the sugar cane was over for the season, and Ricardo had found nothing else. The government was prepared to pay him $7 every two weeks for thirteen weeks before the season began again, and, then with the season he would get $3.60 a day for eight hours in the sun. He had done it before, as his fathers had done it, but this time he told himself he wanted something more.

Spurred on by post--September 11, 2001 fears, more than a dozen states, from Colorado to Delaware, have passed or are considering restrictions on issuing driver's licenses to noncitizens. Some, like Georgia, Minnesota and New York, may tie license expiration dates to the expiration of immigration papers, as Florida, New Jersey and Kentucky do now. Florida's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles now sends records of all its transactions to the Federal Bureau of Investigation every night. A Michigan bill would authorize DMV staff to contact federal authorities if there is "reasonable cause" to believe an applicant is an illegal alien.

The article author believes that exploitation of the naive alien poor is an ancient racket, not restricted to the U.S. In the U.S., "land of opportunity" for the immigrant since colonial times, the exploitation process operates at several levels, of which the most sophisticated- and most expensive-is the private immigration bill. An alien who does not respect the law can sneak into the country illegally, or the can come in on a legal temporary visa, intending to dodge the immigration authorities when it expires. Many illegal aliens do go into hiding, but they have no need of a lawyer until they are caught. It is the alien who wants to obey the law, and is willing to work hard to pay for legal advice, who is most frequently exploited. If the alien has an obliging and rich relative, he won't have to work as hard.

The people of California seem determined to raise once more, the question of Japanese immigration. Petitions for a law depriving Japanese of the right to hold or lease land in the State, and taking away from Japanese parents the legal guardianship of minor children who have property rights in land, are being circulated, and a referendum vote on the proposed law will be taken at the November 1920 election. A large and powerful section of the people of California is prepared now, as it has been prepared whenever the question of Japanese restriction has been raised in the past, to take the matter into its own hands and to adopt any kind of a restriction policy it sees fit, Constitutions, laws, treaties, or "gentlemen's agreements" to the contrary notwithstanding.

The article presents information on political issues and emigration policy relating to U.S. In the United States are numerous Russian Communists who came in properly equipped with passports and visas. They are here on business. They lunch with bankers and make deals with American business men. No State Department official questions their presence or pretends that they are making Communist propaganda. There seems to be a growing bureaucratic arrogance in the country. A Polish girl who had lived sixteen years in the United States arrived at Ellis Island, she was to be deported.

The article looks at the large number of unaccompanied children migrating from the Central American countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador to the U.S. as of 2014, focusing on gang violence in those countries and other factors behind the trend and on related U.S. government policies. Topics include the origin of some Central American gangs in California in earlier decades, family reunification, and coyotes, or human smugglers.

The article discusses incumbent U.S. senator John McCain's campaign to retain his seat in the U.S. Senate against candidate J.D. Hayworth in an Arizona Republican primary election. He notes McCain's lack of popularity with conservative voters and politicians, such as Rob Haney, chairman of the Maricopa County Republican Party in Maricopa, County, Arizona, due to his policies on immigration, gun control and campaign finance reform. Support for Hayworth from members of the Tea Party political movement and libertarians is noted. The author notes that former U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has campaigned in support of McCain and discusses how McCain has changed his views on immigration, healthcare reform and climate change legislation.

The article reports that the U.S. immigration agency, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) has been mistakenly deporting U.S. citizens. The author presents the example of Los Angeles, California citizen Peter Guzman who was deported twice in one year. In such cases, it is often difficult for a citizen to deal with immigration police and U.S. patrol agents, and to contact the people who can prove their citizenry.

This article reports on an immigration raid at the Swift & Co.'s beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado. Mostly Mexican immigrants had been performing the difficult and dangerous jobs, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents burst in and arrested 265 workers. Though ICE officials claim it represents a significant step towards reducing illegal immigration, many in the community believe it accomplished nothing but the ruining of innocent lives.

The author tells the stories of immigrant workers taking part in the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride (IWFR) of 2003, and explains what the organizers of the IWFR hope to achieve. The IWFR's ambitious five-point agenda reflects the demands of a diverse immigrant constituency: a new legalization process for undocumented workers, an accessible path to citizenship, a commitment to family reunification for immigrants waiting for relatives abroad, extension of labor protections to all workers and strengthening of civil rights and liberties to insure equal treatment of immigrants. For two weeks, buses from ten cities hit the road, bound for Washington, DC, then a rally in Flushing Meadows, Queens, on October 4, where the crowd surged to 100,000, according to organizers. It's easy to become preoccupied with isolated flash points, harder to grapple with the insidious structures of racism that mold so much of the daily experience of immigrants and African-Americans. The vast diversity of today's immigrants further complicates the picture. The IWRF is a complex call for a new civil rights charter that includes the foreign-born. Employers are often the frontline enemy in this racialized reality. In the 1960s, and throughout US history, employers have used racial and ethnic differences to divide workers and weaken their organizing. In recent years, the arsenal available to employers aiming to exploit divisions among workers has been expanding. Under the Patriot Act the riders -- regardless of their place of birth or immigration status -- could have been detained if the government had somehow deemed their mission subversive. At the core of the IWFR is an evolving and sometimes rocky relationship between organized labor and the broader immigrant rights community, which have strong common interests but also some different priorities.

Over the past five years, as Washington policy-makers have clamped down on illegal border crossings into California and Texas, the human foot traffic has funneled into Arizona. And that traffic is building to staggering numbers. Border Patrol agents around this town arrest a thousand people a night, twice as many as a year ago and four times the number in 1995. And for every immigrant nabbed, by some estimates another four, five or six cross over undetected. Mexican Foreign Minister Rosario Green has denounced these patrols and pamphlets as "brutal displays of xenophobia," and her government has contracted a U.S. law firm to look into bringing legal action against those the Mexican press regularly calls "the vigilantes."

It was expected by the analysts that the private share of the prison market doubles in the next five years in the United States. Walter Hazelwood and Richard Wilson, the two prisoners, accused of sexual abuse and convicted of beating and raping an 88 year old woman escaped from the prison. Both man, it turned out, were among some 240 sex offenders from Oregon who had been shipped to the Texas detention center months earlier and local authorities didn't even know they were there. The immigration center is owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America, which manages more private prisons than any other company worldwide, which made nearly $14, 000 a day on the out-of-state inmates, informs that the company has no legal obligation to tell the Houston police or county Sheriff about their new neighbors from Oregon.

Several Chinese immigrants may be unlucky to have been the passengers on the ill-fated Golden Venture, which rammed the shore of Queens, New York City more than a year ago. They are detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in lower Manhattan, New York City. Of the 276 Golden Venture inmates, forty are from the Wenzhou area, the rest are from Fuzhou, and twenty-five are from neighboring Jiudu Island. Surprisingly, almost all of the few thousand residents of the region are Christians. They have no contact with American authorities, and the Chinese government has maintained strict silence on the matter.

Presents several editorials which discuss different subjects. "[Deleted] History," which discussed the flow of strategic information from the U.S. government to the public; "The Good Guys," which discussed the factors responsible for political instability in Central America; "Immigration Pols," which discussed the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration bill; "Grounding Unions," which discussed the demands on U.S.-based International Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union of Eastern Airlines.

New York's soot seems to clog the pores of color. Sumach will not thrive in a New York backyard, and none of the trees that best endure soft-coal smoke turn red. horse chestnut affects a rather dull yellow and quickly fades to brown; the ailanthus, catalpa, sycamore, and poplars are all sober autumn trees; the gingko--that curious Chinese immigrant which looks like a tree fern left from the coal age, yet thrives in our ultra-modern cities--has as brilliant a coat as any, but without a hint of red.

Presents letters to the editor on various issues. "Here's Hoping," which writes on re-subscription of the journal for another year; "Japanese Immigration," which focuses on Japanese people taking up American citizenship; "Stuart's Portraits of Washington," which discusses the revival of interest in American portraiture; "Zealous Epirotes," focuses on the Northern Epirotes revolt against Albania in 1914; "The Old Order Revived," focuses on corporal punishment, not only on soldiers but as a general policy of discipline throughout.

For decades now, young newspapermen, especially those of more than average talent and general competence, have been giving up their jobs in cities and towns west of the Hudson and pouring into New York. Some of them found work on the big Manhattan dailies, and some are now editors, editorial and special writers, foreign and Washington correspondents, and sport, gossip, book, drama, and political columnists. There are reasons for this migration to New York, all tied up with the problems of the American press and the country as a whole. But its effects have been evil. It may be partly responsible for the deft writing of some of the news stories in the "New York Herald Tribune."

Las paracaidistas, are the migratory poor in Mexico. The parachutists descend on the border towns of Mexico trying to find work. They have descended on Juarez and Mexico. They have surrounded Juarez with a ring of mud colonies. But from Panchos villa, from the dry and much hotter than hell hill that las paracaidisicis have conquered, one can have an excellent view of the U.S. Two years ago, when President Gustavo Din became President of Mexico, a reform program was announced to change the Mexican border-town image, the image of corruption, a gaudy, neon, forlorn, falling-down, wild pandemonium of inertia and optimistic despair. There is also a program of border morality and social reform.

The article presents information on various political developments in the U.S. It is plain that sentiment in the U.S. has changed rapidly since the U.S. Senate passed the Dillingham bill to limit immigration. The country, it appears, is not yet ready to put up bars as high as some U.S. Senators would have it. And it is by no means ready to deny the right of political asylum, which here as in England has been one of the nation's glories ever since its foundation. The lecturer E.L. Thorndike's knowledge of German is about equivalent to that required for passing intermediate German, is much as though one were to describe the length of an object by saying, "It is about as long as a man can jump." Furthermore, the article also focuses on the fact that Americans who will set foot in Europe will find the land and cities the same as they had expected.

The article presents information on various developments around the world. If Japan, on the one hand, and the second great power involved, the San Francisco Board of Education, on the other, assent to the "solution" of the question of Japanese immigration devised at Washington, an end of the controversy is reached for the time being. William Hurrell Mallock's series of lectures on Socialism promise to make a pleasant book. His literary reputation had, of course, preceded him to the U.S., and he was certain to receive a welcome and to find good audiences.

The article presents information on various topics related to political developments. The disgraceful scenes which have accompanied the opening of that part of the Indian Territory known as Oklahoma to white settlers an putting no cheek to this legalized trespassing on the lands of the Indians, and a committee of the U.S. Senate is about to begin negotiations with the Cherokees for the part of their possessions in the Indian Territory known as the Cherokee strip. In an another news, "The Economista d'Italia" of April 17 gave what it called the painful figures of the emigration of Italians for the year 1836, as furnished by the Director-General of Statistics. The total is 195,211, as against 121,748 in 1887.

When the Pan-American Federation of Labor (AFL) met in New York, it gave fresh proof of the new and constructive spirit of the organized workers when it voted that all nations be admitted to the League at once. Even Mr. Gompers agreed with this, perhaps, by his success in quieting an incipient revolt against him because of the anti-immigration resolutions passed by the AFL at Atlantic City specially aimed at Mexican labor. If there were some reactionary steps taken at Atlantic City and some oversights like the failure to put on record any statement of gratitude to the disappearing War Labor Board for its extraordinary services to labor, there were more forward looking actions taken.

This article focuses on socio-political conditions of the world. Of all the tragedies of the peace, none threatens to be more poignant than that of Poland. Meanwhile, the U.S. House Committee on Immigration has given its approval to a bill which, if it shall become a law, will practically suspend immigration into the U.S. for the next four years. The bill contains the usual exceptions in favor of Government officials, teachers and of the immediate relatives or dependents of permitted aliens or American citizens.

This article focuses on political development of Italy. The age-old problem of Italy; population twice as large as the soil can support is nowhere mote apparent than in the capital. Despite post-war hardships, the population bias grown in the past two years. Moreover, the United States, which used to admit hundreds of thousands of Italians unable to eke out an existence at home, has now practically dosed its doors to this immigration. On the whole the Italians do not appear to be starving, though in Rome as elsewhere in -Italy sections of the population are living very wretchedly. The shops are well stocked despite an intensive export program aimed to prevent further, catastrophic devaluation of the lira, currency of Italy.

The article presents editorials on various national and international issues afflicting the United States. Good farming land in Vermont is passing out of occupation. Rumors of this kind have been going the rounds of the press for some time back, but nothing very definite was known until the State Commissioner of Agricultural and Manufacturing Interests conceived the idea of attracting immigration by publishing circulars showing the places where unoccupied land of good quality could be had, and the prices at which it is now offered. The State Department has been in receipt, according to the Washington correspondent of the "Herald," of many extracts from foreign newspapers referring to the coming Congress of the Americas.

Presents several letters to the editor on articles previously published in this journal. Information on the imperialism in Rome; Response to the article on Democrat William Bryan's nomination; Comments on the immigration policies of the U.S. government.

The article presents the diary of a Southerner Negro mother, who has migrated to Northern Region with her six children. She puts in her experience as, "I AM A Negro mother of six who last month moved, her family from Los Angeles to the Deep South to live. The community we chose was Tuskegee, Alabama, which was the one indication to my friends and relatives that, in contemplating such a move, I was still sane." Tuskegee is the town which many people think had its origin in the establishment in 1881 by the late, great Negro ex-slave and leader, Booker T. Washington, of one of the first schools for the freedmen, Tuskegee Institute.

This article focuses on various socio-economic developments of the world. The taxation muddle at Albany, New York is rather worse than usual this year. Invain do party caucuses, in vain does the Governor, plead for harmony and appeal for new revenue. Formidable objections are offered to every proposed additional tax, and the legislature seems almost at its wits' end to know how to provide the money to meet the expenses which it has authorized. No phenomenon of our time is more significance for the future than the simultaneous outflow of nearly all the civilized European peoples into new countries.

The article reports on manuscripts related to the various political developments in the U.S. as of June 5, 1913. One article reports on the debate on the bill placed in the U.S. Senate allowing a rebate of 5 percent on goods imported in the country. Another article reports on the ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the right of patentee to control the sale of his product. Another article contemplates of the effect of socioeconomic changes in Europe on the immigration of European citizens to the U.S.

The article suggests the United States' reaction to illegal Mexican immigration is part of a history of xenophobic opinion and nativism. Immigration opponent Benjamin Franklin's comments on eighteenth-century Germans in Pennsylvania, the angst over the influx of Irish-Catholics fleeing the potato famine, and the reaction against Chinese immigration in California are discussed. The book "Death of the West," by Pat Buchanan, is referenced.

The article focuses on the political condition of the U.S., as of May 29, 1995. The Congressional battle over the nomination of Surgeon General, designate Henry Foster is nothing but political kabuki obscuring the real fight, abortion rights in the U.S. The abortion rights seem destined to come center stage. In the aftermath of the decision of the U.S. government under President Bill Clinton administration to repatriate Cuban raft people, a major political drama is unfolding in Washington. U.S. government's move to have the Coast Guard return Cuban refugees to the island has left Jorge Mas Canosa, head of the powerful Cuban American National Foundation, seething.

The article focuses on the political condition of the U.S. as of October 9, 1989. Victor has been appointed by the U.S. government under George Bush Administration to head the national effort to clean up the crumbling nuclear weapons facilities. Barney Frank has led the way on Federal housing policy, immigration reform, ethics legislation and reduction of military spending. Before and after declaring his homosexuality in 1987 he has been a leader in the fight for gay and lesbian rights. On the eve of Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze's visit to the U.S. the big concern in the U.S. government was that he would bring a letter from Mikhail Gorbachev containing dramatic new arms-reduction proposals.

This article focuses on political and social developments in the U.S. Figures won't lie, even for political platforms. The New York Republican tariff plank, declares that the Payne-Aldrich bill has "turned a national deficit into a surplus.'' In that case, somebody with a big or a little stick ought to get after the Secretary of the Treasury to ask him what has become of the money, for in the official statements lie reports a deficit steadily increasing. In President William Howard Taft's visit to Ellis Island there was much to touch tile imagination and to awaken emotions both humane and patriotic. Any such incident is sure to stimulate, both in the mind of the President himself and in that of the public, a fuller realization of what this great tide of immigration means both to millions of human beings aspiring to better conditions of life and to the U.S. as a whole.

Presents several letters to the editor of the periodical "The Nation." Comments on educational aims and Rhodes scholarships; compares English idea of education; asserts that one educational idea is Christian and other is pagan; comments on secularization of education; expresses that concessions made by American colleges are unnecessary; focuses on the unsuccessful pleas to the immigration office of the Washington in behalf of Chinese students in U.S.; discusses religious matter and church unions.

This article presents information, related to socio-political issues. The compromise which has now been reached by the Railroad-Bill Conference Committee regarding the question of Federal control of issues of stocks and bonds, is of a kind very natural under the circumstances. The decision of the California Labor Bureau that Japanese immigration is necessary to the welfare of that State, comes as a striking commentary on. the anti-Japanese agitation of two years ago. The protest at that time seemed to be unanimous. The Legislature was prepared to pass a whole series of restrictive laws, ranging from the total exclusion of Japanese laborers to the segregation in schools of all Japanese children.

The article discusses some of the political updates related to the U.S. Commissioner-General F.P. Sargent, in his annual report, gives countenance to the two favorite propositions of those who would restrict immigration. First, that the bars ought to be put up to prevent getting more aliens than needed and second; that the Government should deal sternly with the pernicious activities of individuals and corporations that have been secretly hiring labor abroad. One of the alternative proposals by the ship-subsidy people is what they call a "cargo" subsidy. The Canadian Government has been paying a bounty to manufacturers of iron and steel. Under the law, these bounties were to cease at the end, of next June.

The article presents information on the various procedural problems involved in getting visas at the U.S. consul in Lisbon. The author a relief worker was involved in helping migrants during war to reach U.S. He shares his experiences through the article. The vice-consul in charge of visas had his own ideas about who should be admitted to the United States and who should not. A German rabbi had obtained an immigration visa in Berlin on May 8. An immigration visa is valid for three months and it is all right if one get on a boat bound for the United States before it expires.

Presents several letters to the editor. Provisions in the bill on immigration in the U.S.; Increase in the number of American students in German Universities; Details of ballot reforms in California.

The article provides recent political developments in the U.S. In the year 1874, U.S. Secretary Hamilton Fish negotiated a treaty with Great Britain in behalf of Canada, which U.S. President Ulysses Simpson Grant approved, covering both the fisheries and the trade relations of the two countries, has now been concluded. Some of the horror caused by the Anarchist crimes in Chicago is again said to be finding expression in a movement for the restriction of immigration, so "as to make it impossible for the Anarchist leaders to come here to ply their vocation." Full returns from Ohio show that the first reports of great Republican gains over 1885 were unfounded. A large labor vote in Hamilton County, Cincinnati, demoralized the Democrats there, and enabled the Republicans to secure 6,500 pluralities.

This article focuses on the political conditions of the U.S. The frantic propaganda against the holding- company bill has been more effective in the U.S. House than it was in the U.S. Senate. Friends of the bill so predicted, knowing how heavy the barrage from organized home investors has been. Servants of special interests stand out more clearly in the comparative isolation of the Senate. The House committee in charge of the bill has deleted tile death sentence on all holding companies which are unable to meet a standard of genuine usefulness. Meanwhile one way of using the increasing empty tonnage of transatlantic liners would be to pass the bill introduced, which would bring about the deportation of 6,000,000 aliens.

The article throws light on the immigration aspect in the U.S. The majority of aliens reaching these shores today are not prospective residents, but visitors, here for one purpose or another, and most of these latter have been granted sixty-day visitor's permits. One would suppose that after consuls had granted these visitors permission to enter the country and had carefully scrutinized their credentials in Europe, they could pass into the country without trouble. Furthermore, the largest immigration station is located on an island in the center of New York harbor.

Presents letters to the editor. Response over the attitude of the U.S. government related to immigration visa; Opinion about a previously published article related to labor organizing; Concerning the problems of liberals in the U.S.

Americans of the U.S. origin have been unaware of the perplexing problem of nationality confronting the newer American and utterly indifferent to it; but a World War followed by a quota immigration act has forcibly impressed on thousands of first and second-generation Americans the disastrous dash of varying nationality laws, which deny to some men all nationality and burden others with double citizenship. The U.S. holds to both the law of the soil and the law of the blood, and mixes with these the principle of naturalization; the result is unparalleled complexity and confusion.

El Paso is located on the border of Texas, New Mexico and Mexico, separated from the latter by a winding stretch of sand called the Rio Grande and linked to it by two bridges where American immigration police stand guard against invading Mexicans without passports. At least half the population of El Paso is Mexican-American, and from the railroad tracks southward it is almost exclusively so. In Southside El Paso there exists among the people a clannishness that is very often denounced. The clannishness of the, Southside Mexican-Americans results from pressures imposed from without.

This article focuses on political and economical developments affecting the U.S. and other countries. After the vote in the U.S. House overriding the President's veto of the Immigration bill, there was little doubt that the measure would become a law. President Woodrow Wilson was only reaffirming a position taken during the campaign in endorsing the amendment to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. At the National Conference on Negro migration, some idea was to be got of the force loosened by the medievalism of the South and the cupidity of the Northern employer working together.

The article presents information on various socio-political issues around the world. Washington D.C., U.S., more or less decided to abandon the attempt to amend the Anti-Trust law by plastering some new definitions over it. The factor of urban congestion in the cities of the Atlantic Coast is concededly one of the outstanding problems of immigration. The death of lawyer, John L. Cadwalader removes not only one of the most distinguished New York lawyers, but one of its most public-spirited citizens.