Revision of the immigration law to eliminate hardships caused by the separation of families was urged by Senator Royal S. Copeland in an address he delivered Sunday night at the tenth annual dinner of the Grand Street Boys’ Association at the Commodore Hotel.
Immigration restrictions, Senator Copeland declared, should be lifted in many cases and the present law revised particularly with a view to giving it more humanity. Families should not be torn apart, as is now so often the case, by the working of the present regulations.
“I went recently to North Carolina,” Senator Copeland said, “where they boast that only one-half of 1 per cent of the population is foreign born. Now in New York half the babies are born of foreign parents, and we are proud of that. The admixture of races in New York City has been a factor of enormous value to the city’s strength and welfare.”
Max S. Levine, Judge of the Court of General Sessions and President of the association was toast-master. Among those who spoke besides Senator Copeland, were State Senator Bernard Downine, Joseph Levenson. Maurice D. Blumenthal and William T. Collins, Manhattan County Clerk.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
