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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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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.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge discusses the balance between immigration policies and the humanitarian need to keep families together.

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