9. Aliens debarred from entering the United States and aliens deported after landing during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1924, by races or peoples 10. Aliens debarred from entering the United States during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1924, by causes Number 85 105 69 5 Surgeon's certificate of mental defect which may affect alien's ability to earn a living. Applicable to cases other than idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded, epileptics, and insane_ Tuberculosis (noncontagious) __ Loathsome or dangerous contagious diseases_ Surgeon's certificate of physical defect which may affect alien's ability to earn a living, other than loathsome or dangerous contagious diseases_ Likely to become a public charge--- Paupers, professional beggars, and vagrants. Contract laborers.. Assisted aliens.. Stowaways- Accompanying aliens (under sec. 18). ! ! ! ! ! Under 16 years of age and unaccompanied by parent_ Polygamists. Criminals. Anarchists.. Prostitutes and aliens coming for any immoral purpose.. Aliens who are supported by or receive proceeds of prostitution.-Aliens who procure or attempt to bring in prostitutes or females for any immoral purpose 41 9 1, 486 706 8, 130 6 1, 219 325 2,436 251 267 2 546 2 163 1 149 Under per cent limit act of May 19, 1921, as extended "excess quota”. 10, 114 Total____ 30, 284 11. Aliens deported from the United States after landing, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1924, by causes Under 16 years of age and unaccompanied by parent.. Stowaways.. Number 612 19 57 36 101 3 2, 092 52 605 54 3 12 26 Criminals.. Anarchists, and violations of war-time legislation... Aliens who procure or attempt to bring in prostitutes or females for any immoral purpose- Prostitutes after entry or inmates of houses of prostitution_. Imports or attempts to import or assists or protects or promises to protect prostitutes from arrest... Received proceeds of prostitution or connected with the house of prostitution or other place habitually frequented by prostitutes__ Found in the United States after having been deported as a prostitute or Entered the United States within one year of previous deportation- Under passport provisions of sec. 3.. Geographically excluded classes.. Under provisions of Chinese exclusion act___ Without proper passport (under State Department regulations). Under last proviso of sec. 23. Under provisions of narcotic act. Under per cent limit act of May 19, 1921, as extended " excess quota". Total.. 16 1 525 81 106 3 88 80 5 44 13 190 345 44 53 1 172 218 270 21 462 6, 409 (c) From the report of the Commissioner of Naturalization for the year ending June 30, 1923 1. Military certificates of naturalization (pp. 8–9).-Seven thousand one hundred and nine aliens who served in the American military or naval forces during the World War and received honorable discharge certificates were naturalized under a special provision of law by which certain exemptions accrued by reason of such service, brings the grand total of aliens naturalized since May 9, 1918, upon the basis of military or naval service during the war, up to 278,513. It may be recalled that the Provost Marshal General estimated that 400,000 aliens were drafted into the United States Army for service during the World War, and it is interesting to note that almost 70 per cent of these men who entered the service as subjects of foreign powers have since been clothed with American citizenship. Of the remaining 30 per cent, undoubtedly many were killed in battle or have returned to their native countries to reside permanently, thus reducing still further the percentage that might otherwise be candidates for citizenship. 1 Chinese deported under judicial writ not included. 429-24-SER 5A- 12 2. Certificates of naturalization, exclusive of military naturalizations, issued and denied, by naturalization districts, Alaska and Hawaii, with reasons for denials, fiscal year ended June 30, 1923 (p. 10) 3. Aliens (civilian and military) admitted to citizenship during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1923, arranged by nationalities The preceding table (No. 2, p. 1394) shows that out of a total of 162,859 petitions for naturalization disposed of by the courts during the fiscal year just ended, 24,884 were denied or rejected for the various causes enumerated. Reference has been made in an earlier part of this report to the plan devised for preventing rejections on jurisdictional grounds, and further elaboration appears unnecessary except to suggest that it will be interesting to await returns of the current fiscal year for comparative purposes under the new system. 4. Court decisions (p. 11).—The past year has witnessed adjudications by the United States Supreme Court of two cases which have a very important bearing on the administration of the naturalization statutes. It is a matter of coincidence that these two decisions called for construction of the same statute, namely, section 2169 of the Revised Statutes, which limits the grant of naturalization, among others, to aliens who are 'white persons." The cases in point are Takao Ozawa v. United States and United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, which involved, respectively, the eligibility of members of the Japanese and Hindu races for naturalization. The Supreme Court decided that neither of these races constitutes "white persons" within the contemplation of section 2169 of the Revised Statutes, thereby settling issues which had been more or less mooted since the enactment of the limiting statute in question. It is always a source of gratification to administrative officers to procure final determination of legal questions by the highest court in the land, irrespective of whether such determination supports or rejects a previously reached administrative construction. Such final adjudications serve to clarify the atmosphere of doubt hitherto existing in the interpretation of statutes and render less difficult the administrative path and harmonizes the varying rules in courts of original jurisdiction. This is particularly true with respect to our naturalization laws because of the constitutional mandate upon Congress to "provide an uniform rule of naturalization." This bureau regards as one of its necessary functions the duty of having disputed issues arising in connection with the naturalization laws carried up to the Supreme Court of the United States for final authoritative interpretation, and it deems any renditions by that tribunal on naturalization questions a milestone in the progress toward uniformity. 5. The Cable Act.-One of the most interesting legislative developments of the past year, from the standpoint of naturalization and citizenship, was the enactment of September 22, 1922, commonly known as the Cable Act. Stated broadly, the purpose of this law was to remove the marriage state from the field of operation of our naturalization and citizenship laws. Under the Cable Act, marriage after September 22, 1922, does not operate to confer citizenship upon an alien woman whose husband was then or subsequently becomes a citizen; neither does such marriage forfeit citizenship in the case of a woman citizen who marries an alien husband unless the latter is of the class ineligible for naturalization. Citizenship of a woman forfeited by marriage to an alien prior to September 22, 1922, may be regained by simplified naturalization proceedings; and the marriage state no longer constitutes an obstacle to the naturalization, by separate and independent proceedings, of an alien woman married to an alien husband, if he himself is not barred. |