Letter from the New York Customs Service Collector to the Commissioner General of Immigration Requesting Authority to Employ a Chinese Interpreter to Properly Enforce the Chinese Exclusion Laws
10/7/1901
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This letter includes an enclosed letter from Boston Chinese Inspector Ralph Izard suggesting that Chinese claiming to be native born would try to enter through New York from Havana, Cuba.
This primary source comes from the Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Full Citation: Letter from the New York Customs Service Collector to the Commissioner General of Immigration Requesting Authority to Employ a Chinese Interpreter to Properly Enforce the Chinese Exclusion Laws; 10/7/1901; Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group 85. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/letter-from-the-new-york-customs-service-collector-to-the-commissioner-general-of-immigration-requesting-authority-to-employ-a-chinese-interpreter-to-properly-enforce-the-chinese-exclusion-laws, May 7, 2024]