A report Inspectorate for Immigration in the U.S. Congress on Italian immigrants in the United States, October 1912.
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. They build aluminum and wooden shacks on the outskirts of town where they live close to each other. When they approached the center rented at a price run-down 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 in front of churches but often dark-clad women and men almost always older people crying for mercy, petulant and plaintive tones. Are many children who struggle to maintain and are very united among themselves. They say they are addicted to theft and, if obstructed, violent. Our women do not avoid them just because they are 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. "" I propose that we give priority to the Venetian and Lombard, 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. "
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