Seward daily gateway., 1925-05-27
ALIENS REGISTRATION
 PROPOSED TO TIGHTEN
 us. IMMIGRATION LAW

 committee on selective immigration of the Eupenics Committee of the United States today announced it's recommen enda tiOns concerning alien entrance into the country, or with which have to do with the enforce ment of existing laws, or with changes in these laws which the committee said could be made with out altering the fundamental legis- lation already enacted The report was made public here by Harry Ol- son, chief justice of the municipal courts, and a member of the com mittee.
 Our immigration laws should at all times be rigidly enforced" said the report, "and all border-line cases, which are mostly those liable to be- come public charges for medical req sons, should be debarred unless there is very strong evidence in favor of admission. Appeals from adverse decisions of the boards of special in quiry should rarely be sustained, and all appeal decisions should be based on evidence only, as the law intend ed, and not on personal representa- tion or political influence.
 Aliens should no longer be admit ted on bonds. They should either come in clear, or, if they are unfit, should not come in at all. The steamship companies should be held strictly accountable for making the preliminary examination before em, barkation which the law requires and they should be fined in every case in which it appears that an alien has been brought here who is inadmissible under the law, and whose inadmissibility could have been detected by proper examina ton at the port of departure.
 Registration of aliens should be required by law. The time limit fol deportation of insane and other GU genically undesirable aliens who from causes not affirmatively showr to have arisen subsequent to entrJ into the United States, have become members of these classes, should be removed. Higher physical standards and, as recommended by this com mittee in it's first report, higher men tai standards should be required o all aliens"
 Concerning the Immigration Act o 1924, the committee said Tit should be maintained and strengthened II such respects as experience in prac tice shall indicate to be necessary for the fulfilment of its fundamenta purposes and put immigration back on a purely economic basis"
 The requirements of registration dCCOl uIuS u IiC ICpOi !, NOuiu S 70 Y ly simplify the process of American ization and naturalization. There is no hardship or indignity in this for any alien who is rightfullv here The objection to the plan comes chiefly from those who get rich by smuggling in illegal immigrants and from the aliens already here who live by exploiting their more recent ly arrived fellow countrymen."
 The warrant of arrest in all eases of deportation of insane or other wise chemically undesirable a1eins should be issued by the commis sioner of inauguration or other re sponsible officer of the district ir which the alien is resident, con tinued the report, instead of being is sued by the department in Washing ton.
 "The secretary of labor should be directed in all cases where it is intended to cancel a warrant, or tc suspend deportation, to give the off cer issuing a certificate an opportun ity to be heard, either in person ol by letter, before final action is talk en-"