APPENDIX IV
SUGGESTED CHANGES IN IMMIGRATION LAWS
I. The examination of all emigrants at the port of embarkation.
Objections
(a) The maintenance of an expensive machinery which will be hard to direct and control.
(b) The possible objections of the governments concerned.
(c) The prospective emigrant will necessarily have taken the most serious steps; and rejection at the port of entry will not be a much greater misfortune than rejection at the port of embarkation.
(d) That it will be practically impossible for political offenders to leave their country.
II. “That in addition to the restriction imposed by the laws at present in force, the head tax of four dollars now collected, should be increased to ten.”[9]
Objection
This would increase the number of immigrants who come here without their families, and consequently would react upon the United States both morally and financially.