English to Spanish Other History Immigration, U.S. 1923

[INMIGRATION RESTRICTION, United States Bureau of Immigration, Annual Report of the Commissioner-General of Immigration, 1923]

The immigration act of 1882 which, as already indicated, was the first general law upon the subject, provided for the exclusion from the United States of the following classes only: Convicts, lunatics, idiots (...) The law underwent more or less important revisions(...) until the last-mentioned act, which is the present immigration act, denies admission to many classes of aliens, including the following: idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons (...); immoral persons and persons coming for an immoral purpose; contract laborers; persons likely to become a public charge...