Evening star., 1922-08-21
CUBA ASKED T0PUT
CHECK ON ALIENS
Measures to Halt Smuggling
of UndesirabIes Into U. S.
Requested.
AMERICAN NOTE URGENT
State Department Notes Indica-
tions That Immigrants Seek En-
try Here Surreptitiously.
AMERICAN NOTE URGENT

Strong measures to halt the whole
sale smuggling of undesirable Euro
pean aliens and Chinese into the
United States from Cuba have been
asked Of the Havana government by
the State Department
The American government is under
stood to have pointed out, in a note
transmitted through the Cuban lega-
ton here, that the large number of
aliens admitted to the island in COM
parison to the small amount of work
available is accepted as sufficient in
dication that most Of the immigrants
disembark with the sole intention of
reaching the United States through
undiscovered channels
This note, together with "the neces-
sary recommendations" has been
communicated to Havana, according
to DR.. Arturo Pardo y Almeida. sec
retary Of the Cuban legation. This Of
hcial expressed strong hope for closer
CO. operation between his government
and the United States as a result of
the representations.
Scrutiny Of Applicants Urged.
Careful scrutiny Of the reasons that
prompt such large numbers of aliens
TO apply for admission to Cuba and
creation OF ENTRY barriers" it Is be-
Iced by Department of Labor officials
here, will largely eliminate this coun-
Southeastern coast. 1t is understood
by the Associated Press that the note
was forwarded at the suggestion of
Secretary Davis Of the Labor Depart
mcnt.
approximately 10000 Chinese and
oil
rope are now in Cuba awaiting an op-
portuntty to enter this country sur
Teptiously, in the belief of Secretary
Davis; Constant smuggling of aliens
into the United States, many of whom
are bolshevists, communists and un-
desirable Aliens Mr.. Davis said to-
day, constitutes a menace to tho gov
ernment and should be halted without
further delay. II effective remedy can
not be applied at once through volun-
governments and the United States,
he said. then Congress Immediately
should enact Q compulsory registra-
tion law to be applied to all aliens
within the borders Of this country"
Says Bolshevists Seek America.
Tho Labor Department was said by
Mr.. Davis to be convinced that boil
shevistic and communistic organiza-
tions throughout the world are re-
to get their agitators into this coun-
try. He had no doubt, he added, that
many of those who participated in the
massacre OF miners at Herrin, Ill.
were aliens who had been smuggled
into this country, and who, had there
been a national registration law for
aliens, would never have had tho op-
portunity to precipitate "a tragedy
that shocked the world"
The Labor Secretary was inclined to
the belief also, he said, that there are
at least 100000 aliens in the United
States who have no right to be here
and who, II rounded up and deported,
shipping to convey them back to
their homelandA" Director Burns
of the bureau Of investigation of the
Department Of Justice, he said, had
estimated the number Of such aliens
to be at least 100000. There are also
In the penal Institutions, poerhouse
and other institutions, he estimated,
at least 10000 dangerous aliens who
should be deported forthwith"
The department has been seriously
concerned because of the great ex-
pepse in deporting Chinese, especially,
who have entered this country from
Cuba and Canada Many of the celes-
tials who arrived in Florida apparently
after having been smuggled in from
Cuba have been deported to Cuba,
under protest of the Cuban govern
ment, which held that they should
be sent to China.
In the case Of Canada the depart
ment must deport each Chinese direct
to China, as Canada refuses to accept
the orientals after crossing the inter-
national border. Nevertheless, i'm
migration inspectors have discovered,
Mr.. Davis said, that thousands of
Chinese. guided by we'll paid snug
elers, enter the Canadian northwest,
usually at Vancouver, travel the en-
tire length Of Canada to Atlantic
ports, where they embark for Cuba
with the intention of gaining illegal
access to the United States along the
Florida coast. Along the Canadian
and Montana, Mr.. Davis declared.
there are also bands Of Chinese
ready to slip across the border line
at the first opportunity.