[...] They are generally of small stature and dark skin. They do not like water, many of them stink because they keep the same clothes for several weeks. Shacks are built of wood and aluminum the outskirts of town where they live close to each other. When they approach the center to rent a high price dilapidated apartments. It usually presents in two and looking for a room with kitchen. After a few days turn into four, six, ten.
Among them speak languages \u200b\u200bincomprehensible to us, probably ancient dialects.
Many children are used for begging, but often in front of churches and women dressed in dark old men almost always invoke pity, petulant and plaintive tones. They are many children who struggle to maintain and are very united among themselves. They say they are addicted to theft and, if prevented and violent.
Our women avoid them because not only unattractive and wild, but because it has been rumored for some rapes consumed after ambushes on roads devices when the women return from work.
Our leaders have opened too inputs border but, above all, have not been able to select among those who enter our country to work and those who think they live by their wits, or even criminal activities. The preference to
Veneto and Lombardy, late-witted and ignorant but willing to work more than others. They adapt to homes that Americans refuse if they remain with the families and do not question their wages.
The others, those that have reported much of this first report, from the south of Italy.
I invite you to check the documents of origin and to repatriate more.
Our security must be the first concern. [...]
Inspectorate Report of Immigration to the U.S. Congress on Italian immigrants in the United States, October 1912
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