The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-02-12
1000 ALIENS TO
BE SENT AWAY
Plans for Wholesale DepOr-
tation Being Made by
Authorities
TO GO AS FAST AS
THEY ARE COLLECTED
Federal Laws Do Not Extend to Dis
orders Caused by American Citizens
of Bolshevik Tendencies-States
Must Attend to Them.

WASHINGTON, Feb LIT was
stated at the bureau of immigration
last night that between 1000 and 5000
aliens will re deported from the United
States as rapidly as they can be round
ed up and put on ships. Many of these
are anarchists, who will not be per-
mitted to remain here and carry on
their agitation.
Commissioner of immigration Cam
inetti said he had arrested large nll-
bers of undesirable aliens during the
war and held them in the various sta
tions of the bureau, because of his in
ability to deport them to countries at
war, or for lack of transportation.
Ellis Island accommodates 1000 peo-
pie and most of the space will be oc-
cupied by men and women ready for
deportation.
attorney general, in charge of the en-
forcement of the espionage and other
war acts, declared that, where aliens
| ordered deported resist and go to court,
| his department will represent the de-
partment of labor
| He explained that the federal laws
| don t extend to most of the disorder
caused by Americans of Bolshevik ten
denotes. The state authorities have TO
| deal with them.
Under the immigration act, he de-
clared, it is possible to rid the country
| of all alien anarchists.
Zone of the subjects that gave the
| officials of the immigration bureau
great concern during the last two years
was that relating to the activity OF
alien anarchists and persons of affih-
ated organizations which. while they
are not avowedly anarehistic, spread
the propaganda of destruction of prop
erty and the upsetting of the general
doctrines of government, said Mr..
Caminetti, in a report to Secretary
| Wilson ON the problem of aliens in the
| United States.
1t was because of this situation that
Mr.. Caminctti urged the enactment of
the drastic and effective amendment to
| the immigration act 10 ''exclude and
expel from the United States aliens who
are members of the anarchistic and
similar classes"
In the next few months many aliens
who have been sentenced to terms OF
imprisonment after conviction fo,
crimes involving oral turpitude will
be deported. Several hundred aliens
convicted of violations of the selectiv,
service act and other measures are t.
be deported under that provision
Senator Jones has presented to the
senate petition signed by the = Min
lute Men, Of the American Proteetiy,
League of the state of Washington, EN-
lhracing over $500 signatures
They urge the deportation of thos,
aliens who have taken out their frs
naturalization papers but who, wheI
the war came on, in order TO escap
military service, renowned their dec
laration. = said Senator Jones ''Tne1
particularly call attention to the fac
that out of POS persons who renounce,
their citizenship, "a or 81 per cent, ha,
l. W. W. cards in their pockets
Senator Penrose asked if the eoun
tries from which the Objectionable aliel
came would be willing to take then
: back.
1t occurs to me that we might shi
them home and their own countries re
) fuse TO accept them, said Mr. Penros,
: Perhaps they eouldn I be landed frol
vessels. -