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deporting aliens, to give such aliens as 
good quarters as those for which they 
paid on the voyage to this country; 
makes possible the expulsion from the 
country of alien anarchists and crim- 
inals, even when they have become such 
after entry; and in many other ways 
provides for the welfare of the alien as 
well as for the welfare of the United 
States. 
All these new provisions regarding 
the. more effective exclusion and the 
deportation of mentally and physically 
unfit aliens have been carefully drawn, 
as above stated, after consultation with 
experts who have seriously studied these 
particular aspects of our immigration 
problem. They were all suggested and 
strongly urged upon Congress years 
before the war broke out. Their enact- 
ment into law should have been effected 
long ago, under the usual conditions of 
normal immigration. But every argu- 
ment in favor of this legislation has 
gained weight, incalculably, in view of 
the probable effects of the war upon the 
character of our future immigrants. 
As the commissioner-general says in his 
last annual report, the adoption of these 
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amendments now ‘‘becomes an impera- 
tive necessity.” It is for the best 
interests of our future race; it is for the 
best interests, in the long run, of human- 
ity at large, to prevent, as far as may be 
possible, the coming to this country of 
the mental and physical derelicts of the 
war. It is unfair and ungenerous to 
future generations of Americans to 
saddle upon them the tremendous 
burden of supporting, not only the 
present generation of these people, but 
the long lines of their descendants. It 
is not doing our share in the promotion 
of race betterment if we, who have the 
matter in our own hands today, do not 
act at once, before it is too late. 
The Committee on Immigration of the 
American Genetic Association heartily 
endorses the provisions of the pending 
bill which are directed towards the more 
effective detection, exclusion and depor- 
tation of mentally and physically unfit 
immigrants, and urges upon the officers 
and members of the American Genetic 
Association to make every possible 
effort to secure favorable action by 
the Senate upon this bill. 
What Becomes of the ‘‘Special Class’? Children? 
Eugenicists have often pointed out 
that the costly “special classes’ in 
public schools, for the education of 
pupils who are distinctly backward, are 
founded largely on ignorance; that 
many of the pupils in them are feeble- 
minded and can never be brought up 
to the level of the normal child, or given 
effective education of the usual kind. 
It is therefore interesting to note the 
results of an investigation made by the 
school department of Detroit, Mich., of 
the records of 100 pupils from the 
“special classes’? who had left school at 
16 years of age, and who had in no case 
been out longer than five years. Of the 
100 cases, 61 were boys and 39 girls. 
Their present status, summarized, is as 
follows: 
Girls Boys 
Number of children born......... 3 0 
IMarriediics.. 6, eee ee onen eee Gj 0 
pexually-immoralis. oerans sees 14 0 
WOK s Oh ce Sn etait icin aera 16 39 
Gared foriat,- Nome. 743 wees eee 15 11 
Inkanistipitions as oe ec cieie oe ee 1 5 
Have been arrested.........+...- 4 13 
1D [<t: (6 FN Santo bel eee ye fe AS: 1 2 
No intonmationies.. «.is-.cs.e seen 6 4 
NUMBER OF JOBS 
IN ONG ecso ae wth eral Restos ote ee 11 12 
CTE Fetes a. cleat ea apc SIS Ree ne 9 11 
ZEWO! OL BUTEE wot wim tks OL ae 2 9 
THESE OF UITIONG, tome ore a x.0e cian ieee 5 23 
Of the children born, two are illegiti- 
mate of known feebleminded mothers. 
The eugenicists’ contention that de- 
fective children require segregation 
instead of ‘‘special classes’ appears to 
get a good deal of support from the 
above record. 
