>>> We in the United
States have an opportunity
which is unique in history
for the practice of
eugenic principles. Our
country was founded and
developed by picking men
and women and today by
selecting our immigrants
through proper immigration
legislation; we have the
power to pick out the best
specimens of each race to
be the parents of
our future citizens.
>>> America is the land of
the alien. But the character of
immigration has changed
in the past 30 years.
Previous to 1883,
Western and Northern
Europe set a stalwart
stock. 95% of all who came,
Scandinavians, Danes, Dutch,
Germans, French, Swiss,
and the English Islanders;
they were the best
of Europe's blood. They were
industrious, patriotic,
and far-sighted
where nothing had been.
They planted in mind and built
and toiled with their hands
while educating their children
and teaching them to love
the new mother country, but
for the past three decades
more and more the
immigrant tide has floated
from eastern and southern
Europe. The Jews, Slavs,
the Balkan and Austrian
races, those from the
Mediterranean country as a
class, they contribute
little of lasting value.
No one can stand at
Ellis Island and see the
physical and mental wrecks
who were stopped there
without becoming a firm
believer in restriction an
admission of only the best.
A restriction is vitally
necessary if our inherited
stock of good American manhood
is not to be depreciated.
>>> Immigration Problems
Before the Nation.
Commissioner Williams says
restrictive legislation is
imperatively needed. Years
influx of aliens may total
eight hundred thousand. 
>>> It can be truthfully
said that the dregs and
offscouring a foreign
land, the undesirables of
whom their own nations are
only too eager to purge
themselves come in hosts
to our shores. The policy
of those advocating free
immigration would make
this country in effect the
dumping ground of the world.
>>> We cannot have too
much immigration of the
right kind, and we should
have none of all the wrong kind.
Our need is to devise some
system by which undesirable
immigrants should be kept out
entirely while desirable
immigrants are
appropriately distributed
throughout the country.
>>> Should we not exercise
the same care in admitting
human beings as we
exercise in relation to
animals or insect pests or
disease germs? Yet it is
true that we have actually
been taking more care in
the selection of a Hereford
bull or a Southdown ewe
imported for the improvement
of our cattle and sheep and
we have taken in the
selection of the alien men
and women who are coming
here to be the fathers and
mothers of future Americans. We
do not hesitate to prohibit
the importation of cattle from
a foreign country where
the foot and mouth disease
is prevalent. It is only
in very extreme cases that
we have ever taken such a
step in the case of the
importation of aliens.
Yet there are certain parts of
Europe from which it would
be better for the American
race of no aliens at all
were admitted. 
>>> I am greatly satisfied
to hear that you have
taken up steps to check
the tide of ignorant
stupid and undesirable
immigrants who have
already flooded the
country with criminals.
If the present scale of
immigration is kept up,
the ignorant foreigners
will in time outnumber our
American citizens. The
present immigrants are
mostly slobs, Italians,
and Jews of whom the
Italians are the worst
being murderers and pests
to our nation. These
unworthy immigrants
constitute a menace to
labor, civilization,
and humanity and they should
be totally excluded.
>>> From section 2 of the
Immigration Act of 1907.
An act to regulate the
immigration of aliens into
the United States, be it
enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives
of the United States of
America, in Congress
assembled the following
classes of aliens should
be excluded from admission
into the United States.
All idiots, imbeciles,
feeble-minded persons,
epileptics, insane persons,
paupers, persons likely to
become a public charge,
professional beggars,
persons afflicted with
tuberculosis or 
with loathsome or
dangerous contagious
disease. Persons who have
been convicted of or admit
having committed a felony
or other crime or
misdemeanor involving
moral turpitude.
Polygamists, anarchists,
prostitutes, persons who
procure or attempt to
bring in prostitutes or
women or girls for the
purpose of prostitution or
any other immoral purpose.
>>> From the mental
examination of immigrants.
Administration and line
inspection at Ellis Island.
Every immigrant
undergoing medical
inspection passes two
medical officers.
It is the function of this
officer to look for all defects
both mental and physical
in the passing immigrant.
As the immigrant approaches
the officer gives him a
glance to take in six details,
the scalp, face, neck,
hands, gait, and general
condition both mental
and physical. Should any
of these details not come
into view, the alien is halted,
and the officer satisfies
himself that no suspicious
sign or symptom exists
regarding that
particular detail.
>>> The alien, after
passing the scrutiny of
the first medical officer
passes on to the end of
the line where he is
quickly inspected again by
the second examiner.
>>> This examiner is known
as the eye man.
>>> He stands at the
end of the line with his
back to the window and
faces the approaching alien.
This position affords good
light, which is so essential
for eye examination.
>>> The officer looks
carefully at the eyeball
in order to detect signs
of defect and disease.
The upper eyelids 
are averted in search of
conjunctivitis and
trachoma. A glove buttoner
is found very useful for
this purpose.
The pupillary light reflex is
tested for the purpose of
apprehending tabetic's,
paretic's, and other
parasyphilitic persons.
>>> Many inattentive and
stupid-looking aliens-
>>> From fifty to a hundred
percent of those who enter
the inspection plan-
>>> Are questioned by
the medical officer in the
various languages.
>>> What’s your name? 
How old are you?
Are you Greek? Where
do you come from?
Where are you going? 
What place is this?
Who am I? Why do I ask
questions? Why do I ask
these questions? Has a
change come over
your mind? Are you nervous?
Do you have strange feelings? Do
you always get so easily?
Are you crazy? Do you hear
strange voices?
Do people follow you or look at
you suspiciously? Do you feel
like killing yourself? Why did
you come to America?
What happened to you during the
voyage? Did you think that
something would happen 
to the ship?
Does God talk to you? 
Do you see God?
Do you see visions? 
Do you ever
see flashes of light? Does
anyone control your mind?
Can people read your
thoughts? Do you feel
something moving inside of
your head? Why do I ask
you these questions? Why
are you so excited?
Are you happy? Do you care for
the opposite sex?
Are you in love? 
Do you masturbate
once or twice a day? How
many times a week do you
masturbate? At what age
did you begin to masturbate?
Does it affect your mind?
How much beer and
whiskey do you drink?
Does it affect your mind?
How long have you been
drinking? Do you take drugs?
Do you talk to yourself? Do
you have fainting spells?
Attacks of dizziness?
Are you irritable?
>>> A young woman's body
was found in a room cut
into 18 pieces. The police
say that she committed suicide.
Do you think this is likely?
And washing the steps,
do you begin at the
top or bottom? Why, why, why?
There was a railroad
accident yesterday, but it
was not a bad one. The
number of deaths is only 48.
The number of deaths
is only 48. A lady wanted
to tell if her pet dog
taken off. She was afraid
of what hurt him. So, she
decided to have a little
piece cut off every day.
You are shipwrecked and
alone in a small boat many
hundreds of miles from
shore. You have with you
in the boat two boxes,
one containing 50 pounds of
bread the other 50 pounds
of gold. The sea is very
rough, and it is necessary
to throw one of the boxes
overboard to keep the boat
from sinking each. Which
box would you discard?
[Overlapping voices] 
>>> Medical certificate.
This is to certify that
the above-described
immigrant is an idiot.
Said the alien was
affected with such
condition at the time of
foreign embarkation and
its existence might have
been detected by means of
competent medical
examination at such time.
Alien unanimously excluded
and ordered deported.
Alien notified of his
exclusion and right to appeal.
>>> There is nothing
humorous about deporting
an immigrant. You can work
in this department until
your hair is gray, but
you'll never get over your
dread of pronouncing
sentence of deportation on
one of those poor devils.
It's like closing the
gates to paradise on a man
who is climbing the ladder
with bleeding feet and
hands. It is consigning
him to a life of poverty
the like of which America
doesn't know and cannot
realize. Here on the
island, we can read the
horror and dread in his
face particularly in his
eyes. 
>>> There exists today a
widespread belief in the
power of the environment
as well as education and
opportunity to alter
heredity. It is a fatuous
belief that speaking
English, wearing good
clothes and going to
school and to church do not
transform a negro into a
white man. Americans will
have a similar experience
with the Polish Jew whose
dwarf stature, and
ruthless concentration on
self-interest are being
engrafted upon the stock
of the nation. The most
practical and hopeful
method of race Improvement
is through the elimination
of the least desirable
elements in the nation. 
>>> Adolf Hitler out of
all people loved Grant’s book.
He called it his Bible, and he
wrote to Grant an
enthusiastic fan letter,
and he didn't stop there.
He put the eugenic
program developed in
America to a test. 
>>> The U.S. has become a
Dumping Ground
for everybody else's problems.
Thank you. Donald J. Trump
is calling for a total,
and complete shutdown of
Muslims entering the
United States until our
country's Representatives
can figure out what the
hell is going on.
