Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-16
WOULD T|GHTENUP
ALL REGULATIONS
FOR Immigration
Seven Recommendations Are
Submitted to House Com
mittee for Action.

Seven recomme nda tions for tight
ening up" immigration regulations
with particular reference to Ellis Is
land-and as they apply throughout
| the United States to anarchists, boil
shevists and other ultra radicals-are
indicated by Representative Isaac
Siegel. Il member of the House COM
mittee. that has been investigating
! Ellis Island as an important port of
| entry. These recommendations are
row being considered by the House
| committee of which Representative
Johnson of Washington is chairman,
and which is expected to report a
bill to Congress very soon.
The recommendations, according to
Mr.. Sicgel. will include %. naturali-
cation courts in large cities; (2).
method of reqNiring all young Ameri-
cans to take the oath of allegiance
upon reaching twenty-one years; go.
abolition of the office of commissioner
general of immigration; %, appoint
ment of an assistant secretary of the
department of labor to supervise all
immigration affairs; 80. mandatory
legislation providing for more rigid
inspection at Ellis Island. where so
per cent of incoming aliens arrive;
CO., a military immigrat ton patrol on
he Canadian and Mexican borders:
90. more drastic penalty for ship
owners who permit alien members of
crews to desert.
Reds Wiley and Shrewd.
You can't tell red by looking at
him" declared one of the Ellis Island
officials. You can't catch a red by
cross-examining him. They are far
too willy and shrewd. 1t is only after
they have been in the country for a
sufficient length of time that you dis
cover their pernicious beliefs, and
when you do no time should be lost
IN deporting them. No examination.
prior to entry. can give the protection
intended by the law. 1t is necessarily
perfunctory. and Ineligible aliens are
bound to slip through because of our
wrong methods"
Border Entrances Big Problem.
New York has the biggest immigra-
ton station in the country, he said.
the others being at Boston, Baltimore,
Philadelphia. New Orleans. San Fran
cisco. Seattle, Wash. Norfolk, Va.
ana Galveston, Tex, are ports of en-
Try with inspection officers. but are
not ciassed as stations" like Ellis
Island and the rest
1t is comparatively easy to shut ont
the mentally and physically defective
Wnen they come in at these big ports,
Sald Congressman Siegel, but the bic,
problem is to prevent the entrance of
uHuesiraoie ailenS over our northern
and southern borders
Inadequate as our Immigration ma
chlnery may be in New York and other
large ports" aidthe representative. iii
Is much more effective than the ma
chinery we have along the internationaI
| boundary lines of Canada and Mexico
we nave no means of knowing how
many men and women, hostile to Amer
lean institutions and democratic govern
ment, have surreptitiouSly entered the
limited States. Still another means of
illegal 1ngTess has been for reds to shin
as sailors and desert upon reaching this
country. Under our present law the
snip owners can be penalized by a $40
nne only. We purpose making the pen-
atty more stringent"
naturalization Court Favored.
The House committee, Mr.. SieeeI said
VIII recommend the establishment of the
| NATURALIZATION court so that federal and
| other judges, whose time is taken nm
with hearing hundreds Of civil and
criminal cases, may be relieved of a
task or immense Importance to the
country's welfare, but which, by the
very nature Of things at present, Is gen
orally sighted from sheer judicial
necessity.
Last year. Mr.. Siegel said. the gov
eminent realized a net profit from nat
uralization fees of $45O,000, and the
pront to date since the beginning of
the immigration service has been s1O.-
100000. Such a court, it was said.
could expedite hearings and "undesira-
bles,' instead of being released on their
own recognizance or paroled in the Gus
tody of their lawyers, could be ordered
deported within thirty days.