Executive Order 589 - Wikisource, the free online library

Another tidbit of history. march 14, 1907. The Immigration Act of 1907 broadens the categories of people banned from immigrating to the U.S. The list excludes “imbeciles,” “feeble-minded” people, those with physical or mental disabilities that prevent them from working, tuberculosis victims, children who enter the U.S. without parents, and those who committed crimes of “moral turpitude.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1907