SCREENING AT ELLIS ISLAND & OTHER IMMIGRATION STATIONS
PROBLEMS. THEY WOULDN'T ADMIT THOSE WHO COULDN'T OR WOULDN'T EARN A LIVING.
BRENNYMAN BOOKS. WE ARE ADULT EDUCATION!
Immigrants also had to undergo legal inspection (left). Immigrants who had legal problems had to
to go before boards of special inquiry (right). Having physical problems, or being a contract
laborer trying to undercut American workers' wages, a common criminal, a polygamist or pimp
or some other sort of degenerate, or a Nazi, Communist, anarchist, jihadist, or someone else who
opposed American society kept aliens out of the United States. American leaders used to regulate
immigration to protect America! How novel!
AGENTS CHECKED ALIENS FOR HANDICAPS, EYE PROBLEMS, AND OTHER HEALTH AND MENTAL