New-York tribune., 1922-09-16
Alien Law Again
Separates Son
From Mother
Youth Classified as African
Although Parents Are
French, and 1echnicality
May Bar Him From u. S.
Moves TO Modify Rule
Labor Secretary Says the
Act Was Never Intended
to Break Up Families

A technicality of the immigration
law once again interviewed to prevent a
mother and son, born in different
countries, from landing in the United
States together yesterday when the
! Roussillon, of the French Line, arrived
with Nine. Louise Du Pont and her
son, Pierre. eighteen years old, on
board
Nine. Du Pont teaches Fyench in the
Daytona High, School, at her home in
Daytona. Fla, and has slready brought
an older son, now in the Gainesville
University, to this country. Pierre
was born in the Seychelles Islands, off
the east coast of Africa, as was the
other boy, while his father, now dead,
was practicing law there. Under the
quota system, established since the
older boy was brought in, four years
ago, the Seychelles Islands are classed
as African, and the quota for Africa
is at present exhausted. AS conse-
quence, Nine. Du Pont found yester-
day that Pierre, in the eyes of the law,
was of a different nationality from
either his French father, his mother,
or his brother, and that he could not
be admitted to the United States. De-
spite the fact, therefore, that her
| school began on September IL and that
she has letters requesting her to re-
turn, Nine. Du Pont and Pierre were
ordered taken before a special board
of inquiry at Ellis Island, with the
possibility that the mother alone will
be allowed to remain here.
French Women in Plight
Several other passengers on the
Roussillon we're also entangled in the
immigration regulations and held up.
| One of them was Nine. Rosina Alas,
of Bedasour, France, which is in the
| Pyrenees near the Spanish border. Her
| husband was born on the north bank OF
| the River B.dassoa, in Gendaye, which
| is French, while she was born on the
south bank in Irun, which is Spanish
| Though the river is crossed by bridge,
where, according to Nine. Alas. who
| speaks English fuently, you can stand
| with one foot in France and one in
| Spain it creates gulf thousand
miles wide as far as her attempts to
get into the United States go, since the
| Spanish quota is at present exhausted
| She intends to- visit her sister, Mrs
| Marie Gonzales, OF 1864 First Avenue
| New York. if the authorities at Ellis
| Island who are investigating her case
| decide to let her in
! Another one was Mile. Andree Lux
embourger, twenty-five years old, who
| brought with her her five-year-old boy
Judd, on her way to visit her sister
Mrs. George Mclean, of Chicago. She
! told the immigration inspectors that
| during the last years of the war she
met young French infantryman
| Ferdinand Ferraz, ut her home In Paris
His furloughs were too short to per.
| nit marriage ceremony TO be per.
formed, however, and when little Jude
was about two years old he disap,
peared.
Mile. Luxembourger obtained q visa
/ for her passport by sfe intervention OF
a young American, who told the consul
that he was much interested in her
She and her boy were taken TO Ellis
! Island for action by board of inquiry
Anne Morgan to the Rescue
One of party of six young Frenct
women sent here to be educated BY ths
| Committee for Devastated France alsc
ran afoul OF the immigration officials
| She was Mile. Georgette EldiH, of Ia
Pouzin. near Lyons, who had lost hel
handbag containing her passport ans
other yaluables on the voyage. This
! party was met by Miss Anne Morgan
head of the committee, and Mile Eldir
was paroled in Miss Morgan's custod,
pending disposition Of her case aftel
a consultation between the Inspector
and Ellis Island.
The literal Interpretation of the i'm
migration law that caused she difficult
ties of the Roussillon's passengers
however, Is going to be done away with
accrding to James =. Davis, Secretar.
Of Labor, who visited Ellis Island yes
i tefday. Every effort will be mad
i hereafter TO prevent the separation o
parents and children, he declared an,
q ruling is now being sought from tn
i derartment's legal authorities whicl
Il will supersede the present interpreta
i tion excluding e child born in a coun
4 try whose quota has been exhausted
Il although its parents, natives Of an
other land, might enter the Unite
States.
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