Chapter 128. to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven
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CHAP. 128.— AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven. March 26, 1910.[[H. R. 15816](/us/bill/61/hr/15816).][[Public, No. 107](/us/pl/61/107).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section two of the ActImmigration.Vol. 34, p. 898, amended. entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 2. That the following classes of aliens shall be excluded fromClasses of aliens excluded.Idiots, insane, etc. admission into the United States: All idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epileptics, insane persons, and persons who have been insane within five years previous; persons who have had two or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; paupers; persons likely to becomePaupers, diseased persons, etc. a public charge; professional beggars; persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons 264not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living;
Criminals, polygamists, anarchists, etc.persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or persons who admit their belief in the practice of polygamy; anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States, or of all government, or of all forms of law, or the assassination of public Prostitutes, procurers, etc.officials; prostitutes, or women or girls coming into the United States for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; persons who are supported by or receive in whole or in part the proceeds of prostitution; persons who procure or attempt to bring in prostitutes or women or girls for the purpose of prostitution or for Contract laborers, etc.any other immoral purpose; persons hereinafter called contract laborers who have been induced or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment or in consequence of agreements, oral, written or printed, expressed or implied, to perform labor in this country of any kind, skilled or unskilled; those who have been, within one year from the date of application for admission to Assisted emigrants.the United States, deported as having been induced or solicited to migrate as above described; any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes and that said ticket or passage was not paid for by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign government, either directly Children unaccompanied.or indirectly; all children under sixteen years of age unaccompanied by one or both of their parents, at the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor or under such regulations as he may from time *Provisos*.Exceptions.Political offenders.Aliens in transit.to time prescribe: *Provided*, That nothing in this Act shall exclude, if otherwise admissible, persons convicted of an offense purely political, not involving moral turpitude: *Provided further*, That the provisions of this section relating to the payments for tickets or passage by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign government shall not apply to the tickets or passage of aliens in immediate and continuous transit through the United States to foreign Skilled laborers.contiguous territory: *And provided further*, That skilled labor may be imported if labor of like kind unemployed can not be found in Professionals and servants.this country: *And provided further*, That the provisions of this law applicable to contract labor shall not be held to exclude professional actors, artists, lecturers, singers, ministers of any religious denomination, professors for colleges or seminaries, persons belonging to any recognized learned profession, or persons employed strictly as personal or domestic servants.
” " Sec. 2. Prostitutes, etc.Vol. 34, p. 899, amended. That section three of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 3. Importing aliens for prostitution, etc., forbidden.Persons liable.*Post*, p. 827. That the importation into the United States of any alien for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose is hereby forbidden; and whoever shall, directly or indirectly, import, or attempt to import, into the United States, any alien for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose, or whoever shall hold or attempt to hold any alien for any such purpose in pursuance of such illegal importation, or whoever shall keep, maintain, control, support, employ, or harbor in any house or other place, for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose, Punishment.in pursuance of such illegal importation, any alien, shall, in every such case be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof 265be imprisoned not more than ten years and pay a fine of not more than five thousand dollars.
Jurisdiction for the trial and punishmentJurisdiction. of the felonies hereinbefore set forth shall be in any district to or into which said alien is brought in pursuance of said importation by the person or persons accused, or in any district in which a violation of any of the foregoing provisions of this section occur. AnyDeportation of alien inmates of houses of prostitution, etc. alien who shall be found an inmate of or connected with the management of a house of prostitution or practicing prostitution after such alien shall have entered the United States, or who shall receive, share in, or derive benefit from any part of the earnings of any prostitute; or who is employed by, in, or in connection with any house of prostitution or music or dance hall or other place of amusement or resort habitually frequented by prostitutes, or where prostitutes gather, or who in any way assists, protects, or promises to protect from arrest any prostitute, shall be deemed to be unlawfully within the United States and shall be deported in the manner provided by sectionsVol. 34, p. 904.Punishment for attempts to return. twenty and twenty-one of this Act.
That any alien who shall, after he has been debarred or deported in pursuance of the provisions of this section, attempt thereafter to return to or to enter the United States shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be imprisoned for not more than two years. Any alien who shall beDeportation after expiration of sentence. convicted under any of the provisions of this section shall, at the expiration of his sentence, be taken into custody and returned to the country whence he came, or of which he is a subject or a citizen in the manner provided in sections twenty and twenty-one of this Act.
In all prosecutions under this section the testimony of aEvidence of husband or wife admissible. husband or wife shall be admissible and competent evidence against a wife or husband. " Approved, March 26, 1910.