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Medical inspection of Mexican immigrants was not opposed because health was a prerequisite for labor. [13] The inspections were also differentiated by class, as “a sizeable number of Mexicans—especially recognized commuters, those who were well dressed, and those who rode first class on the train—were exempted from the disinfection drill”.
Additionally, PHS physicians refused to sit on boards of special inquiry, where final decisions on the exclusion of immigrants were made. Physicians tried to keep their medical assessments separate from final decisions to accept or deport immigrants, and persistently refused to sacrifice the ethics of their profession for the sake of political ...
Many undocumented immigrants delay or do not get necessary health care, which is related to their barriers to health insurance coverage. [7]According to study conducted using data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey, of the Mexicans and other Latinos surveyed, undocumented immigrants had the lowest rates of health insurance and healthcare usage and were the youngest in age overall ...
Two nonprofits serving New Jersey's immigrant and low-income communities have formed a unique partnership to offer medical and legal services along with wraparound support under one roof.
Let's break free from our discouraging history of blaming others for the problems in our nation, writes the Rev. Nils de Jesús Hernández.
The Immigration Act of 1907 was a piece of federal United States immigration legislation passed by the 59th Congress and signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt on February 20, 1907. [2] The Act was part of a series of reforms aimed at restricting the increasing number and groups of immigrants coming into the U.S. before World War I ...
Two immigration officers interrogate Chinese immigrants at Ellis Island. 1951. ... It also resulted in the federal Chinese Exclusion Acts, the first of which passed in 1882 to temporarily restrict ...
The inspectors at ports of entry had the authority to conduct a medical examination of aliens suspected of being unfit or having dangerous diseases, marking the beginning of medical exclusion of immigrants in the United States. Aliens who were detained for a medical examination were still considered to not have formally entered the United ...