Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18

and Vermont are constantly warning on
smugglers' parties. Sometimes there is
fight. Gilbert Carter, village con-
stable at Youngstown. N. Y. was shot
ing the banks of the lower Niagara
River. A member Of Smuggler gang
waiting for a boatload Of aliens saw
Carter, a special immigration officer
creeping forward In the darkness and
shot him five times.
For while airplanes were used to
carry foreigners across the Canadian
border. 1t has proved improbable. An
airplane advertises its presence too
much, the smugglerS decided. Villagers
seemed too curious about planes COM
ing down in their neighborhood.
Nowadays, the smugglers' rings prefer
to lead the aliens to farmhouses on
the Canadian side, then herd them
across the border under cover of night.
Easily deluded, these new arrivals
from Europe are frequently victimized.
Canadian mounted police rounded up
200 Sicilians near Mill Cove. 40 miles
southwest of Halifax, on September
Is. 1928 The Sicilians. through in
terpreters. said they had paid from
1000 to 10000 lire each to be brought
by an italian ship to America.
When the ship reached Mill Cove
from Italy the captain cast anchor and
summoned the struggled passengers.
1T has been a successful trip" he
said to them. I'VE have arrived. Take
your bags now and go ashore. 1t is
only miles to the United States
A short walk and you will find fine
jobs
They walked instead into the mount
ed police
One of the tricks on the Canadian
border is for smugglers to pretend they
are agents for church and charitable
organizations devoted to the fate of
immigrants. They meet the new ar
rivals at Montreal and whisper direc-
tionS for taking secret overland routes
into the United States, where other
agents meet them and lead them to
New York.
One Clergyman Accused.
The pastor of Ukrainian church
was arrested at Rouses Point, N. Y, ac-
cused of being the representative of a
Montreal smuggler who had been ex-
pediting aliens for many months across
the border for 500 to $1,000 a man.
Said q Canadian immigration in
with 10 guards, two railroads and
20 highways in this district any
smuggler who lets himself be caught
should never leave home without
guardian"
No wonder smugglers' syndicates. with
Offices in many cities both In North
America and in Europe. do a business
Of 81, SOC, 900 to $l0,000,00 annually, &C
cording to the estimates of Govern
ment immigration authorities.
High profits-cash proflts-explains
why smuggling of aliens from Canada
into the United States provides lucra-
tive but precariouS occupation for some
hundreds of Canadian and United
States citizens who reside near the in
ternational boundary.
The business is most flourishing in the
neighborhood of Windsor and Detroit,
the populous districts on both sides of
the line, making 1t easier for aliens to
be slipped across, but the New Eng
land route still is good.
Many pass into the United States
mingling with the crowds of regular daily
travellers. Others, who frequently are
laid by the heels sooner or later. enter
as tourists and remain. Their difficulty
arises when they desire, at some later
and more prosperous phase of their
careers, to leave the United States on
visit either to Canada or Europe.
They cannot return.
They have no United States citizen
ship papers to show, nor have they any
permit to enter or even wise from the
consul Of their own nation In the United
States.
To re-enter they must be struggled
across again, and it is this re-smug-
Cling which Is today one Of the most
profitable businesses of alien smugglers.
Many of the people desiring to be
re-smuggled into the United States have
become wealthy in the course OF years
since they first illegally entered it.
Re-Smuggilng Is Profitable.
They have established homes and
reared families, but If by any reason
they have to visit another country,
they know that they are risking home,
wealth and happiness, and so are WILL
ing to pay large sums to be safely
admitted into the United States again.
Fast motor launches, such as are used
In smuggling liquor, are also employed
in smuggling aliens across the Great
Lakes. To q lesser extent boats are
employed on Lake Champlain.
Many more ingenious devices are also
in use but the automobile conveys more
aliens into the States than either trains
or boats
Recently, in the Niagara district, 1t
was found that aliens we're being con-
veyed across the river in the iron cage
which travels across the gorge on an
overhead wire. This was being done in
the dead Of night.
Near Trout River and Rock Island
there are houses which are so exactly
on the boundary line that some rooms
are in the United States, some in the
Dominion.
Suspicious Of immigration and Gus
toms officers are often directed to such
houses. but never yet have they been
justified by arrests.
The most recent incident in which one
OF these houses figured was at Trout
River. where a Canadian farmer named
knight was arrested when, as he
claimed. he was in Canadian territory.
He had just left the boundary house
by the Canada door, and when he was
arrested by American officers was cling