Obama told a Chicago audience that the only Americans that can legitimately object to his actions on immigration are Native Americans.
“There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, ‘Well, I don’t want those folks,’ even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans,” Obama stated.
Ah, this must be the justification behind Obama’s defiance of a Texas federal judge’s injunction against his amnesty action. Mr. President, would you break the law if a Native American judge submitted the injuction? Would that meet your qualifications?
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Free country, free speech and the Natives lost over 100 years ago!
You are the most idiotic POTUS ever!
Incoming President Trump is facing a monumental task in undoing all the damage this man,and his cohorts,have done to this nation-I no longer recognize it as the country i grew up in. We no longer have legal immigrants coming here seeking a better life,we have invaders who either wish to destroy us,or live off of our labors.
There’s only six responsibilities of the president of the United States of America.. I hope they hang this man
Ya but his initial stance was that we are all European and were immigrants! Im not!!!
The drugs are really causing this nonsense.
I object mother f..cker. your immagration plan sucks and we do not want them
Oh really both of grandfathers are half American Indians. So that I can tell you, Barack, to shut up and move on to respect Trump as a president.
I want this$#%&!@*tried for treason.
Virginia Smith , I disapprove of him totally & 3 other ” oval office sitters ” who went against this law & the other one like it to!!!!!—->Immigration Act of 1907
The Law: Federal legislation regulating immigration
Date: Signed into law on February 20, 1907
Significance: This law created the Dillingham Commission to collect data used in future immigration laws, further narrowed Asian immigration, limited Muslim immigration, and expanded the definition of undesirable women immigrants.
In 1905, amid continuing concerns over increased immigration, President Theodore Roosevelt called upon the U.S. Congress to increase protection from unwanted immigration, especially in the nation’s largest cities, and to codify earlier legislation. Roosevelt and Congress sought to exclude immigrants who would not make good citizens. In February, 1907, Congress passed a new immigration act that expanded previous immigration restrictions by prohibiting Asians from entering the United States through the territory of Hawaii, doubled the immigration head tax to four dollars per person, broadened the excludable classes of immigrants to include contract labor and subversive and presumably immoral groups, and required ships to allow minimum amounts of deck space for each passenger and to provide manifests of their departing aliens.
Section 39 of the new law created the U.S. Immigration Commission—better known as the Dillingham Commission—to investigate immigration problems and their impact on the nation. The commission provided detailed reports to future Congresses regarding the need for refining immigration laws. The commission called on Congress to put the economic well-being of U.S. citizens above the needs of corporations that relied heavily on uneducated immigrants for cheap labor. The commission also favored further limiting immigration, implementing an alien literacy test, and continuing the Chinese exclusion policy and restricting Japanese and Korean immigration. The commissioners argued that Congress should limit the admission of unskilled aliens and implement a quota system.
The Immigration Act of 1907 was notable for several key innovations regarding immigration policy. Section 12 required ships with alien passengers departing the United States to provide complete lists of their passengers by name, age, sex, nationality, occupation, and place of residence in the United States. The information gathered through this law provided the first statistical documentation on alien departures. To combat the practice of polygamy and the keeping of concubines, the act expanded on the Immigration Act of 1891, which denied entry to polygamists, to include any persons who espoused these practices. The Ottoman Empire viewed these provisions as an attack on Islamic religious practices.
Women were a particular target of the 1907 law, which broadened the definition of prostitutes to include women arriving in the United States for any immoral purposes. The vague language of the law was used to exclude women in arranged marriages, especially those of Asian origin, and allowed for their deportation. Responding to concerns of progressive reformers, the act tightened laws targeting immigrant women suspected of being recruited to work as prostitutes. It also permitted the deportation of women who lived in known houses of prostitution or who had practiced prostitution within three years of their entering the United States. This was the first statutory provision authorizing deportation based on criminal conduct within the United States.
Linda Upham-Bornstein