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Show New 2 Per Cent Quota Law Has Given a Jolt to Aliens in America By R. C. DEMING, Yale Summer School. The new 2 per cent quota law for the regulation of immigration has given a jolt to the foreigners who don't seem eager to become permanent members with us although they do so much of our work. It interferes with their plans to bring relatives over and to return to their native land for brief visits. They realize, from reading the foreign-language press and from bitter experience, that it is a lot easier to get out of this country coun-try than to enter it. Aliens know also that this new law is not the end. They know that an alien registration law is being advocated by the secretary of labor and others who have studied the problem and understand its importance, and they don't want to be aliens when that law comes. Registration with the police and similar interference in their personal affairs is what they came to America to escape. This all means one thing : Formerly we sought and were unable to compel the alien to go to night school and learn English and study citizenship. citi-zenship. Now he is going of his own accord. Our problem is simpler, but it is big enough. We must provide the teachers and the schools. |