While restrictive immigration has been adopted in part for the benefit of the wage earner, and in its entirety for the benefit of the country, it ought not to cause a needless separation of families and dependents from their natural source of support contrary to the dictates of humanity.
Calvin Coolidge: “While restrictive immigration has been adopted in part for the benefit of the wage earner, and in its entirety for the…”
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Coolidge discusses the balance between immigration policies and the humanitarian need to keep families together.
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