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between me and my man ever since she
came over here; and / want that you
should send her back on the first boat,
because the longer she stays the worse
1t will be for this great land Of
America"
Sonia did 60 back-not because she
was q domestic trouble-maker, how
ever, but because her visitors visa had
expired.
Frog Brings Deportation.
All kinds of conflicts of human ma
ture result in deportations. One of the
most curious that I recall involved a
frog. The facts related to me by the
immigration agents who investigated
the case began in the bathtub of the
servants quarters of a large Pennsyl-
vania estate. On a certain hot Sum-
Eaer's day Katrina II, recently ar
rived from Germany, sought relief by
immersing herself in a tub of cold
water. She had hardly become COM
fortably established in the tub when a
large, fat, green frog splashed in the
tub with her.
Katrina established a new world
record for speed in leaving bathtubs--
and she broke at least one divine COM
msndment in her denuneation of an
other servant whom she suspected and
accused of having cast the frog into the
tub. Whether the suspicion was cor
rect our agents never established but,
in any event. the quarrel resulted in
the receipt of letter by immigration
headquarters for the district. stating in
substance, IF you will look up Katrina
H, who works for Col b, you
will find somebody who got into this
country Illegally through Canada and
should go out again"
The information was correct, as are
most of the tips" received by the bu-
reau, and Katrina is now back in q
land where bathtubs are fewer, and
perhaps frogs, also.
Aliens Desert Ships Here.
The Kstrinas and Sonias who come
in as servants and visitors lawfully and
unlaWfully, furnish an immigration
problem of some Importance in tire ag-
gregate But of greater Importance is
the problem Of a proper accounting for
the scores of thousands of aliens who
arrive as workers on ships-stewards
walters. mess cooks ordinary seamen,
flFemen and oilers-and who by treaty
and law are given the right. to go
ashore temporarily on leave and to
seek new employment outbound
The extent of this problem can be
gagged by the fact that in the last
fiscal year nearly 100000 alien sea-
men were examined. We know that
Thousands of aliens have come to Amer
lea in recent years in the guise of sea-
men, and once ashore have remained
there, although usually not tsFrying
long at the port of entry because of
the danger of discovery and deporta-
ton. Those thousands of ex-seamen
are so many reasons why thousands of
American-born citizens are job.eSs.
And so the duty Of the Bureau of
Immigration is at least threefold-to
keep out those who should not enter;
to get out those who have unlawfully
entered or who endanger our institu-
tons, and to get in those We need and
can use or who should come in as a
matter Of justice and right.
Now, realize that although Congress
has put limitations and restrictions on
immigration, there Is still present in
the minds of many people, both within
and without this country, the question,
Why put up bars against the entry of
aliens into the United States, provided
they are healthy, honest end of fair in
telligsnce?" Coupled with that ques-
ton usually Is this one Wasn't the
United States built up to its present
foremost position largely as the result
Of practically free and unrestricted i'm
migration7"
More People Than Jobs.
shall not attempt here to give all
the answers to those questions. The
simple and plain fact is that we have
IN this country, at the present time at
least, more people than We can use in
gainfui occupations 1t also is a fact
that II We could Immediately deport
the many thousands Of aliens who have
entered the United States unlawfully
or are here as result of evasion of
cur laws, We could Immediately fill the
JOBS and positions which they hold
with Americsn-born men and women
who are both without employment and
without present prospect of employ
ment
And q further fact which I state
without equivocation or apology is that
we are deporting just as rapidly as pos
sible as many aliens who are here I'M
lawfully as We can find We are send
ing them cut OF the country at the rate
or 800, 400 and even 500 a Week-and
we intend 10 keep that up as long as
proper administration of the nations
laws makes it necessary
We are not proceeding on the false
theory that these foreign people are not
good enough for America, or on the
theory that our own people are superior
70 any and every other on the face Of
the globe. The fact is that any person
who has made any study at all Of the
history OF immigration to America must
recognize the obligation Of the United
States to practically every other coun-
Try In the world for Substantial human
contributions 10 the development and
upbuilding Of our high type Of eiyiliza-
ton.
Conditions in L. s. Change.
1t was the brains and Drawn of
Europe and other continents, coming
here IN many shiploads in many de-
cades, which in part was responsible for
the rapid development and great eco
nomic progress of America we had to
begin with much land and compare
lively few hands 10 till it. We had
practically no industries, no manu-
featuring facilities in a great expanse
or territory from ocean to ocean.
Those conditions no longer exist. We
produce more wheat, more cotton, more
other agricultural products than we
can at present use. either at home or
abroad. Our industrial productivity is
greater than the need and demand
and men are Idle because there are
more here than We can use now.
Machines-on the farm and in the fac
tory and on the roads and streets
have curtailed the market for the labor
Of fingers hands and arms.
That is the present situation. II is
an entirely different situation from that
which prevailed more than a generation
ago Then the Government interpused
no objection, for the time being, to the
hiring abroad Of large numbers of men
10 come 10 the United States for work
az so cents and 81 a day. Our need
then was for man power In forests on
farms, in factories That need does not
exist now-and our immigration law,
In the main, fits present conditions.
The economic pressure within the
United States is strong-but that out
side Is stronger. They impinge on our
two long ocean lines ana along our two