The Denver Jewish news., 1923-12-13
What is Going On in New
York City
Last Act i'm immigration Drama-"Victms of Caprice
Paroles and Politics-Mercy and Injustice.
BY GERSHON AGRONSKY

which might be called, Victims of
ish immigrants who are guilty of no
greater wrong than that they sought
entrance to these once hOspitable
shores, but came at the wrong time
and been ordered dcpor:ed, will be
allowed to proceed to Canada there to
await the reOpcning of the Russian
quota. If there should be any more
3lallying with the fate of these weary,
Guota-hunting wandering, and if the
permission for their departure to Can
ada is withheld by the Labor Depart
rncnt. the immigration regulations will
take their course and the deportation
sentence hanging over their heads will
be carried out without a hitch. The AK
will not fall with single merciful
blow, Telling the whole nerve-wreckcd
and deludcd cargo of undesirable and
indesircd humanity. Slow torture is
nm essential part of and cOrollary to
he present immigration policy. The
acpOrtatiOns will he carried ont by dribs
md drabs. in lots of fifty or hundred.
nder circumstances of cruelty which
.ould not have been more painful had
hey been calculated.
Who are these dcportccs and what
5 their offence? They are Jews who
ave regularly secured their American
isiis, crcm regularly constituted United
States Consular officials in various
parts of Europe. They must he eligible
or admission to have passed the barb
Il wire entnnglements of the American
onsular offices in Warsaw and in Riga.
n KownO and in bucharest and where
not. They must be. or Mt any rate
we're at the time they obtained the
oveted visns. physically. mentally and
morally desirable as residents and ulti-
nate citizens of this country They
lrc in brief. carefully selected. hand
,.ckcd aliens-selccted by the ineyor-
lble law OF survival of the fittcst, pick
d by officials as persons meeting all
immigration requirements. They rep
resent the fortunate few among the
many thousand wrctchcs. whose ap-
,lications had been rejected by the
nitcd States. Moreover they all have
,omc special claims upon one or an
,thcr citizen. one or another dcclar-
mt Gf the United States. They are
nrcnts. or children, or o.hcr blood
relatives of one or another citizen. one
= ,r another dcclarant of these United
|Etates.
Hut they offended in the first place
in not having chosen wisely their
r.h-place. and though they hail from
ill parts of Europe are chargeablc to
he Russian quota: they erred, in the
second place. in that they trusted in
he wisdom and humanity of the Con-
suar officers. believing they would not
hc given visas which would only en-
title them to n return trip to the vale
of despair-if not destruction.
And so they came here, these trust
Ing wandering Jews, carried in the
bowels of ships that made the voyage
TOO slowly or too rapidly, arriving
within the three mile limit just in time
for the announcement that they were
cxccss-quota, the allotment for the
wear for Russia having just then been
Exhausted. This was on the first or
second day or November 1923. O. f.
But on that Gay there also arrived
,I,;, 81 ,,,iI limit nunLpr
of other vessels bringing aliens from
line British Isles and alien citizens
|chargcable to great Britain's quo;n
And upon that day the British quota
also was declared exhausted. But up
on that day there happened in New
York the Hon. James j. Davis the
| Secretary of Labor. He heard of the
plight of the eXcoss-quota Rritishcrs.
He remembered his birthplace i'll
Wales of Great Britain. He looked at
the calendar, saw it was November 'ird
and thought of the elections on the
i h. He inquired II bit further and
found that of the 1000 eycess-quota
cargo, II large number were brought
ON the L. s. Shipping Boards lie
viathan.'' Mr.. Davis became humane.
He ordered the eXccss-quOta immi-
grants admitted on parole. under bonds,
on grounds of humanity" He decreed.
and departed. it is believed for Pitts
hurgh to help the Republicans. OF
the 1000 about half We're admitted i'm
compliance with Mr.. Davis humani-
taranism. They were all. or mostly