Exclusion Policy Quotes
A bill was introduced making literacy a requirement for immigration.
Scientist and double Nobel Prize winner, Marie Curie, 1867-1934, was rejected for membership at the French Académie des Sciences. She never allowed her name to be submitted again and for years refused to allow her work to be published by the Académie.
Cities operated on an entirely different plane than the rural countryside which was divided up and given to nobles and the peasants on the land were serfs—virtual slaves to the noble. Cities allowed more equality, opportunity, freedom, modernity, and education. However, serfs would vote with their feet and move into cities leaving the princes devoid of their surf labor. The Emperor tried to stave off this trend by preventing the cities from admitting the surfs who were otherwise generally welcome as they, like immigrants classically provided an excellent source of compliant, low cost labor. Ironically, there are third world countries who even in modern times are trying to restrict the immigration of peasants to the cities.
The United States has often staffed its foreign mission with foreigners to save money or obtain specific skills.
This quote comes as a shock to many for whom Bolivar was one of the great humanists and statesmen of Latin America. In the struggle to gain independence from Spain and their Spanish Colonial masters, there was an occasional Spaniard who sympathized with revolutionaries and would offer to enlist in the revolutionaries’ cause. But Bolivar at this point in time did not want the complicate the cause of his coalition whose only commonality was their hatred the Spaniards from Europe. The Spaniards in Latin America were about the most viscous and cruel occupiers in history.
The racial targets of the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League widened and they changed their name to the Asiatic Immigration Exclusion League.
