extend alien ban
scandalous bootlegging of
aliens through seaports
WOULD EXTEND ALIEN BAN
Secretary Davis Will See Coolidge on Canada and Mexico Quotas
Special to the New York Times
Washington. Jan. 13 – The application of the quota provisions of the Immigration law of 1924 to Canada, Mexico and Central and South America, which are at present excepted from the restrictive features of the statute, will soon be discussed with President Coolidge by Secretary of Labor Davis a view to the extension of the act through legislat1on.
Secretary Davis insists that the quota principle be extended to Canada and Latin America to suppress the scandalous bootlegging of aliens through seaports and over the Southern and
Northern borders. He would admit labor when needed but would have the President authorized to limit or prohibit immigration whenever the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Commerce found that unemployment in this country made such suspension of the law desirable.
100 years ago today in the New York Times.
We certainly have come a long way since then.
President Coolidge was never arrested.
And the aliens weren’t from Mars but coming from the same old places … Mexico and Canada.
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