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THE United States Government is taking measures to control immigration, so as to ensure, so far as is possible, that undesirables of all sorts shall be excluded. The present publication, which is the statement of Dr. Harry H. Laughlin made before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalisation of the House of Representatives, is witness to its activity in this direction. By estimating the actual and predicted proportions of various sorts of degeneracy contributed by the various stocks that enter the United States, it is possible, by excluding immigrants from those foreign countries that contribute more than their share, to ensure that the healthiest possible stocks only are admitted.
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Analysis of America's Modern Melting Pot: Hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalisation, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, Third Session, November 21, 1922. Statement by Harry H. Laughlin . (Serial 7-C.) Pp. 723–831. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1923).
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PERRY, W. Immigration and Degeneracy in the United States. Nature 112, 344 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112344a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112344a0