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- Title
CRIME AND IMMIGRATION.
- Abstract
The article discusses criminal law and immigration in the U.S. It analyzes whether the alien in the U.S. is at a substantial disadvantage or under substantial disabilities in comparison to the native, in his relations to the courts of law and, second, to ascertain what the law endeavors to provide to compensate them, or what can be suggested to meet them. Irrespective of the immigration statutes the existence of the disadvantage of the alien after he lands is shown not only, by the existence of special treaty guarantees, but by the increasing state legislation which is being exacted in a commendable endeavor to decrease the disabilities of aliens. The state enactments have been passed within the last two years to protect the savings of immigrants and to bring some relief to the intolerable conditions which exist in many courts of inferior criminal jurisdiction through incapable and dishonest interpreters, shysters and prejudiced judges. But the highest recognition of the fact that the alien, of the class known as the immigrant, is at a disadvantage, is to be found in the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of such legislation.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EMIGRATION &; immigration; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); CRIMINAL law; IMMIGRANTS; JUSTICE administration
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1911, Vol 2, Issue 4, p546
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article