generally are small stature and dark skin. do not like water, many of them stink because they keep the same dress for several weeks. are built wooden shacks and aluminum in the suburbs of the cities where they live close to each other. When they approached the center rented at a price run-down apartments. is usually present 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 in front of churches, but often women dressed in dark elderly men and almost always crying for mercy, petulant and plaintive tones. do many children who struggle to maintain and are very united among themselves. They say they are addicted to theft, and if obstacles ati, 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 their wits, or even criminal activities.
The text is taken from a report of the Inspectorate for Immigration in the U.S. Congress on Italian immigrants in United States, October 1912.
The report continues:
propose that we give priority to the Veneto and Lombardy, late-witted and ignorant but willing to work more than others. They adapt to homes that Americans refuse even that families remain united and do not question their wages. The others, those that have reported much of this first report, came from southern Italy. I invite you to check the documents of origin and to repatriate more. Our security must be the first concern.
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