vestito per molte settimane. Si costruiscono baracche di legno ed alluminio nelle
periferie delle città dove vivono, vicini gli uni agli altri. Quando riescono ad avvicinarsi al centro affittano a caro prezzo appartamenti fatiscenti.
Si presentano di solito in due e cercano una stanza con uso di cucina. Dopo pochi giorni diventano quattro, sei, dieci. Tra loro parlano lingue a noi incomprensibili , probabilmente antichi dialetti.
Molti bambini vengono utilizzati per chiedere l'elemosina ma sovente davanti alle chiese donne vestite di scuro elderly men and almost always 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 thwarted, 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 report continues:" I propose that we give priority
the Veneto and Lombardy, late on the uptake and
ignorant but willing to work more than others. They adapt to homes
that Americans refuse even that families remain united and not
wage dispute. The others, those that have reported
large part of this first report, from the south of Italy. There
invitation to check the documents of origin and to repatriate more.
Our security must be the first concern. "
_ / The text is taken from a report of the Inspectorate for Immigration
American Congress on Italian immigrants in the United States, October 1912
/
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