The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-12-17
Conditions at Ellis Island, New
York, Do Not Provide For
Inspection Of a Very Rigid
Nature.
fRv The Associated Press.)

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New York, Dec. 16.-Some of the
defects of Ellis Island and seven e c
concentrations which the Congression-
al committee will make to the House
for a Tightening up" Of immigration
regulations throughout the United
States, particularly as they apply to
anarchists, b%olshevists and other ul-
ira radicals, were indicated here today
by officials of the United States I'm
migration Station and by Representa-
tive Isaac Siegel, a member of the
committee which has been investiga-
ting this port of entry.
These recommendations, according
to Mr.. Seigel, will include (1) Ma
turalization Courts in large cities;
(2) a method of requiring all young
Americans to take the oath of ale
glance upon reaching 81 years; 90 a.
BOLTON of the Office of Commissioner
General of immigration; az appoint
ment of an Assistant Secretary of
the Department of Labor to super
wise all immigration affairs; (5) man.
datory legislation providing for more
rigid inspection at Ellis Island where
80 per cent of incoming aliens arrive;
(6) a military immigration patrol on
the Canadian and Mexican borders;
(7) more drastic penalty for ship ow-
ners who permit alien members of
crews to desert.
"You can't tell a Red by looking
at him." declared one of the Ellis Is
land officials. "You can't catch a Red
by cross-examining him. They are
far too willy and shrewd. It is only
after they have been in the country
for a sufficient length of time that
you discover their pernicious beliefs
and when you do no time should be
lost in %deporting them. No examin-
alton, prior to entry, al give the pro-
lection intended by the law. It is ne
cessarily perfunctory and ineligible
aliens are bound to slip through be-
cause of our wrong methods"
New York has the biggest immigra-
ton station in the country, he said,
the others being at Boston, Baltimore
Philadelphia, New Orleans, San
Francisco and Seattle, Wash. Norfolk,
Va, and Galveston, Tex, are ports
Of entry with inspection officers but
are not classed as stations" like Ell
lis Island and the rest. It is compar-
atively easy to shut out the mentally
and physically defective when they
come in at these big ports, said Con-
gresham Seigel, but the big problem
is to prevent the entrance of unde-
sirable aliens over our Northern and
Southern borders.
machinery may be in New York and
other large ports" said the Congress
man, lit is much more effective than
the machinery we have along the in
ternational boundary lines of Canada
and Mexico. We have no means of
knowing how many men and women
hostile to American institutions and
democratic government, have surrep-
titiously entered the United States.
Still another means of illegal ingress
has been for Reds to ship as sailors
and desert upon reaching this coun-
try. Under our present law the ship
owners car be penalized by a $40 fine
only. We purpose making the pen
atty more strignent."'
The House committee, Mr.. Seizel
said, will recommend the establish
ment of the Naturalization Court so
that Federal and other judges, whose
time is taken up with hearing hun
dreds Of civil and criminal cases, may
be relieved Of a task of immense i'm
portance to the country's welfare hut
which, by the very nature of things at