The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-12-28
MANY UNDESIRABLE
PERSONS IN U.S.,
STATISTICS SHOW
Government Unable to Deport
Them Because They Be In
Danger on Seas.

| Washington, Dec. 28.-Unprece-
denied problems with which the Fed
| era1 Bureau of Immigration has had
| to deal the result of the war in
Europe are pictured in the annual re-
port of Commissioner General An
thony Caminettf
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 haz-
ard either on the high seas or after
being landed in a, foreign port. AL
though in the main the policy of pro-
! tecting aliens proved to be correct and
was successful, the Commissi oner Gen
era1 says, one of its results has been
to leave in the United States at the
close of the year ], 1928 foreigners with
no right to be here and destined ulti-
Inately to deportation.
sit would be impossible the report
continues, adequately to describe the
problems which have confronted the
bureau as the result of the unique sit
uation produced by the existence of
the European conflict. There has
hardly been a phase of the enforce
rflent of the regulations which it has
not been necessary to modify, sus-
pend, or remedy in its applications.
Such propositions as the control of
lard boundaries, particularly the Can
adam border, Canada being involved
in the war;; the handling of alien sea-
men, especially those employed
vessels of belligerent nations interned
in United States ports: and the hand
ling of aliens of an extremely unde-
sirabIe type impelled to come to the
United States from belligerent coun-
tries because of the very situation
arising from the status of their ma
tive land, are but a few of the larger
problems with which the bureau has
been confronted. Successfully to meet
thiss ituation has been no easy task
Urging the necessity for excluding
aliens on economic grounds, the re-
port tells of the rejection Of many
Hindu and East Indian 1aborers who
attempted to land at Pacific ports on
the ground that they were likely to
become public charges 1t refers too,
to a case now pending in the Supreme
Court involving the right OF the gov
eminent 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 1aborers to justify the be-
lief that they would be able to main
tain themselves. Expressing the hope
that the court will sustain the admin
istrative officers, the report declares
that if the officers are not vested with
discretion to exclude aliens under
such circumstances, ''the law is not
as comprehensive as it should be and
much less potent to protect the people
of this country than the bureau had
already supposed it to be-"
The Commissioner calls attention
to various schemes resorted to in
smuggling Chinese and other tnnrni-
grants from the East into the country
and suggests that If there is any doubt
about the letter of the law relating to
persons admitted as natives, sons of
natives, etc, proper amendments
should be enacted. An appropriation
is asked to provide automobiles for
patrol work along the Canadian bor-
der, a 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 tiIIers of the soil in their |
own country to go to farms instead of |
to congested industrial centers.
An urgent plea for the enactment
of a. general irnIni grafton law, similar |
to the Burnett bill vetoed by Presi- |
dent Wilson at the last session Of
CONGRESS on account of its Hteracy |
test provision concludes the Commis- |
sioner's recomm endations for 1egisla- I
ton. The proposed law, the report |!
SAYS represented the result of ex-
perience and investigation of helf a
century framed to conform to all
Supreme Court decisions, and would |
have improved the existing law by |
81 strengthening and extending many of
it's most important proviSions.