Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27
UNCLE SAM FINDS
new PROBLEMS IN
HANDLING ALIENS
Changed Status Of Immigrants
Brought About by War Condi-
tons Makes New Tasks
for Federal Bureau.
DIFFICULTIES OF DEPORTATION
Rules Formerly Existing Have Had
to Be Modified or Changed to
Meet New Situations.
MANY EAST INDIANS REJECTED

W AtNs NVs 0h
precedented problems with which
the federal bureau of immigration
has had TO deal as the result OF the
war in Europe are pictured in the
annual report OF Commissioner Cen
eral Anthony Caminettl, made public
today by the secretary of labor.
Particular attention is directed TO
difficulties encountered in enforcing
the deportation OF undesirable aliens
because of the prospect, in many
cases, OF placing them in extreme
hazard either on the high seas or
after being landed in foreign port.
Although in the main the policy OF
protecting aliens proved to be cor
rect and was successful, the commits
sioner general says, one of its results
has been to leave In the United
States at the close of the year 1925
foreigners with no right to be here
and destined ultimately to deporta-
ton.
New ProbIems Presented.
1T would be impossible" the report
continues. adequately 20 describe the
problems which have confronted the bu-
I reau as the result Of the unique seituation
produced by the existence OF the Eu-
ropean conflict There has hardly been
a phase OF the enforcement OF the regu-
/ lations which II has not been necessary
to modify, suspend or remodel In It's APP
piications. Such proportions as the cen
troll OF land boundaries, particularly the
Canadian border Canada being involved
In tho war;; the handling OF alien sea-
men. especially those employed on yes
sells OF beIligerent nations interned in
United States ports. and the handling OF
aliens of an extremely undesirable type
impelled to come to the United States
from bellgerent countries because OF the
very situation arising from the status of
their native land. are but a few OF the
larger problems With which the bureau
has been confronted. Successfully TO
meet this situation has been no easy
task"
Many Hindus Rejected.
Urging the necessity for excluding
aliens on economic grounds. the report
tells OF the rejection OF many Hindu and
East Indian lahorers who attempted to
land at Pacific ports on the ground that
they were likely to become public
charges. 1t refers, too. TO case now
pending in the supreme court involving
the right OF the government to exclude
certain Russians on the ground that they
were bound for a locality In the west
where It was known that there was not
sufficient demand for iaborers TO Justify
the belief that they would DO able to
maintain themselves. Expressing the
hope that the court will sustain the adj
I ministrstive officers. the report declares
that II the officers are not vested with
discretion to exclude aliens under such
circumstances. the law Is not as COM
prehensive an II should be and much less
potent to protect the people OF this coun-
try than the bureau had always supposed
tito be-"
Asks for Automobiles.
The commission calls attention TO vari-
GUS schemes resorted to in smuggling
Chinese and other immigrants from the
east into the country and suggests that
II there is any doubt about the letter OF
the law relating to persons admitted as
natives, sons OF natives, ETC., proper
1 ehcaAb 70 SnaCtcus All dR-
preparation Is asked TO provide automo-
biles for patrol work along the Canadian
border. decision OF the comptroller of
the currency, having obliged the bu-
reau to discontinue the expenditure OF
money for this purpose.
Plans for further development OF the
bureaus employment bureau work are
outlined, one OF the new phases OF the
program being an effort to induce many
incoming aliens who have been tiIlers OF
the soil In their own country to 90 to
farms instead OF to eongested industrial
centers.
General Law L. Needed.
An urgent plea for the enactment of a
general immigration law. similar to the
Burnett bill vetoed by President Wilson
at the last session OF congress on ac-
count OF its literacy test provision, con-
cludes the commissioners recommenda-
tions for legislation. The proposed law.
the report says, represented the result
OF experience and investigation OF half a
century, framed to conform to all SUI
preme court decisions. and would have
improved the existing law by strengthen
Ing and extending many OF it's most i'm
portant provisions.
AMAQnC IN uADpICnAf