Evening star., 1915-12-30
IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS
CAUSED BY WAR ABROAD
Commissioner General Camineth
Makes Recommendations for Serv-
ice in Annual Report.

Many special cases involving new
problems in immigration have come up
as a result of the European conflict, ac-
cording to the annual report OF Com
missioner General Anthony Caminetti
OF the United States bureau OF immi-
sratlon. made just public. A great
many OF the difficulties have been en-
couhtered in enforcing the deportation
OF undesirable aliens because OF the
prospect of placing them in extreme
hazard either on the high seas or after
peihS landed in a foreign port.
Although in the main the policy OF
protecting aliens proved to be correct
and was successful, the commissioner
general says, one of it's 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-
mately to deportation.
1T would be impossible" the report
continues, adequately to describe the
problems which have confronted the
bureau as the result Of tine unique stu
alton produced by the existence Of the
european conflict. There has hardly been
phase of the enforcement of the regu-
latlons which 1T has not been necessary
TO modify. suspend or remodel in it's
applications Such propositions as the
the Canadian border Canada being in
VOWED in the war), the handling Of
allen seamen, especially those employed
on vessels of belligerent nations in
termed in United States ports. and the
handling of aliens of an extremely un-
desirable type impelled to come to the
United States from belligerent coun-
tries because of the very situation aris-
ing from the status of their native land
are but few of the larger problems
with which the bureau has been con-
fronted Successfully to meet this situa-
ton 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 laborers who attempt
ed t, 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 in
volving the right of the government to
exclude certain Russians on the ground
that they were bound for a locality in
the west where II was known that
there was not sufficient demand for
laborers to justify the belief that they
would be able to maintain themselves.
Expressing the hope that the court will
sustain lne oulCSISs tnc
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 pro-
tect the people of this country than
the bureau had always supposed it to
be-"
The commissioner calls attention to
various schemes resorted to in snug
Cling 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 amendments should
be enacted. An appropriation is asked
to provide automobiles for patrol work
along the Canadian border, decision
of the controller of the Treasury hav-
ing obliged the bureau to discontinue
the expenditure of money for this pur-
pose.
Plans for the 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
tillers of the soil in their own coun-