Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-23
TEMPORARY VISITORS DECLARED
CHIEF IMMIGRATION PROBLEM
Card Index of All Who Enter on Steamers
Will Show How Long They May
~. Stay in United States.

nave competed Jnelr SJuQleS ana re-
turned, leaving 6,20l who are still be-
lieved to be in various schools and col
leges.
The problem of seamen who are tenn
porary visitors to American shores was
a little different, however, until immi-
grafton authorities received power to
inspect the crews'of all incoming ships
and order the captain to deny shore
leave to any aliens who excited sus-
picion.
If they are not detained on the ship
after such orders are issued, the trans
portation company is liable to a fine of
$1,000. Under this system the number
of assertions of aliens is somewhat re-
duced 1t was still 1887 for 1923. OF
these more than 5000 deserted at New
York.
Seamen Problem Vexatious.
1.-The problem confronting the service
| in the control of alien Seamen is most
difficult and vexatious," declared Com
missioner General Hull. "As the immi-
grafton laws have been frightened up
from time to time, the problem has been
correspondingly accumulated"
| He pointed out that seamen occupy
privileged position in the scheme OF
| things" SO that commerce may not be
unduly hampered
"Seamen come and go largely at will
although no longer do alien seamen
leave their vessels in the numbers they
formerly did" he said.
| In spite of the thousands of illegal
entries, through all methods. yearly
the impression should not be taken from
this article that the Government is en-
tirely helpless. Thousands of illegal
aliens fall into the hands of immigra-
ton officers when they turn up some
where and want something.
Eventually they all want something
so that the immigration Bureau, which
obviously could not go out and find
Ivan Strakaloff without knowing even
what State he was in. waits and waits
and eventually Ivan comes to the
Government. Then, if the statute OF
limitations has not taken effect, he is
collared and deported
On February 4 the immigration Re-
Striction League, which numbers many
well known college professors in its ma
| tional committee, voiced this protest
against the border leakage:
while the act of 1924 made a heavy
cut in the part of European immigra-
| ton which enters through lawful chan
nels, the dam was merely erected but
not made tight Moreover, it checked
| immigration on one side only to in
crease it on the other.
1T is no improvement to stimulate
Mexican immigration at The expense OF
Italian immigration. 1t is rather the
opposite, and the whole country knows it.
Also, our deportation laws remain
absurd. The immigrant excluded at one
| point of the border can come back the
next day, or any day thereafter, and
try ~ oUniY1 without YNarcltu
illegal entry of seamen and others
is continuing through lack of proper
registration, and our border patrol has
been given too little financial support
| Restriction Vital Matter.
1.-THE vital matter is to get restric-
ton. From Massachusetts, to Texas and
from Texas to Puget Sound comes the
| evidence that our business and mechan-
| ical developments have resulted in hav-
| ing more men than there are jobs to
give them.
I'VE do not need to increase our
working population by immigration, and
the several hundred thousands year
that are still coming in merely add to
| the burden of surplus labor that we have
to carry.
1.-THE ordinary American is beginning
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eSted in getting~a job for himself and
holding one, in maintaining his home
and in educating his children than he
| is in getting his second cousin over
from England, Ireland, Germany or
oslovakia-foreign language press
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
What matters to him is that the
disputed quotas are altogether too large
that there is perpetual leakage at our
ports and along our borders and that
we have no protection whatever from
cheap labor from the South"
Congress, the professors complain. is
more interested these days in the boot
Logging of booze than in the bootlegging
OF human contraband.
(The End)