Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
IMMIGRANTS OFFER
BIG PROBLEM TO u. S.
Officials Find Many Vexatious Cases to
Deal With in Protecting
Americas Interests.

no longer bear safely from an economic
standpoint.
With an inadequate force OF men and
equipment, we are doing our best to per-
form our first and primary duty-to
keep out those who may not lawfully
enter. And the ingenuity and determi-
nation exercised to get in excite admit
ration no less than offlcial condemna-
ton!
Here are five aliens captured as they
Chamber up the American shore of the
Niagara River after having made a
perilous crossing in a frail rowboat of
the rushing waters between the cataract
and whirlpool rapids.
Here is a 17-year- old alien girl, clad
in mems trousers, sweater and cap, who
was lowered by rope over the towering
gorge on the Canadian side to the lower
abutments of a railroad bridge, where
she was met by an alien smuggler, or
runner" who was to guide her across
the boundary line. Together they made
their way across the gorge on the mar
row steel ledge which is part of the I'M
der section of the bridge. Inch by inch,
foot by foot, they advanced toward the
land of liberty and opportunity, high up
in the air above the river rushing and
roaring below, conscious that the slight
est slip in footing meant a fall into the
depths beloW-and death. At last they
were across, safe on the stone abut-
ments of the American side. And there,
waiting for them, reluctantly but duti-
fully. were immigration inspectors on
patrol. The reward of the perilous jour-
ney was deportation for the girl and
prison for the alien runner.
Novel Entries Attempted.
Here is a captured l6-year -old boy
who freely admits that he has helped to
smuggle in at least so aliens. Here is
an entire gang of captured alien snug
glers who have brought at least TOO for
eigners into the United States within
Two years Part of their plan was 70
lower the aliens over the rocky gorge
on the Canadian side of Niagara, using
q rope to deliver them to confederates
waiting 200 feet below to act as
guides. One of the men captured.
convicted and sentenced to three wears
imprisonment was found to possess a
novel and intricate flashlight which
threW varied white, green and red
beams as signals to those Of his con-
lederates who were bringing aliens
across the river in speed beats.
And here man, his wife ana tiny
oaby, all aliens, coming into the United
States from Canada by airplane To avoid
the Immigrant inspectors-and being
round by them nevertheless. Then here
Is the man from Poland who paid $50
10 be smuggled in by rowboat and de-
manoS that the Government of the
United States repay his $50 or stand the
consequences of his own country's wrath
upon deportation!
IN Lower California we find Chinese
VINO nave paid $500 apiece to be carried
ny arpIane across the Mexican border
70 the vicinity Of Los Angeles: 81 600
Ior carriage by air to San Francisco
WIN extra compensation for the trans
portation of narcotics.
AND, going back TO the Canadian
noroer, we ind the immigration patrol
arreStng Two aliens who in two hours
craWleo through tina cable conduit of a
bridge high over the Niagara River
Extending into and blocking passage
through the conduit at intervals are
large steel supporting Orders or bars.
tneSe mace 1t necessary for the two
dllehS 70 swing outside the conduit.
stspplng over the air, y couple of hum
ored feet above the rivers surface.
cnnging precariouSly to a structure that
anorded little hand hold. And IL was
TINS swinging out over the river that at
tracted the attention Of the immigration
patrol-and led to arrest at the Amer
lean end OF the cable conduit.
Aunt Aids Bride to-Be.
Less dangerous certainly, but none
the less Interesting was the nethod
used by a Slovakian girl 70 Obtain
entrance TO the United States, wherein
oWeIt her young and assume
hancsome lover, TO whom she had been
oetrothed in their native land
She Journeyed to Cuba, where an
aunt lived, and with whom she made
her nome temporarily. And here.
through courtship by correspondence
she became engaged to an older fellow
who had become a
naVnralized citizen Of the United States. |
he mace a trip to Cuba, where. after |
personal inspection of the young lady |
ne was married to her by a magistrate'
But there could be no religious cere-
mony there, not only because of the lack
OF member of the clergy of their
faith, but because the groom be, who
was man Of some wealth and i'm
portsnce among the foreign born eIe-
ment in Northern industrial city.
wanted TO participate in a wedding of
ceremony and pomp. So he parted from /,
his bride Immediately after the Cuban
civil wedding, without even a kiss. and
returned to the United States. From
there he sent her $500 for the trip Ia
JOIN hlnn-and for the aunt who had
acted as marriage broker.
The bride gained entrance TO the
United States as the wife of an Anert- |
can citizen-though she was a wife in
name only-and preparations went for
ward for the "high- toned" wedding
enyisioned by the elderly groom. The
church wedding, however, never took
place-for lack Of bride. The explana-
ton she made was that after she
reached this country her legally
welded hut-not-in-fact husband as
sumed the attitude of boss" refused
to allow her 70 buy an sl8 dress, public
ly disgraced her by wiping the powder
ana rouge on her face in moving pic
ture theater and forbidding her to use
cosmetics, and generally threatened
that If she didn't comport herself
exactly as he had ordered he would
have her deported because she really
mad not been his wife in fact when
she entered the United States.
Tilted, He Asks S7OO Back.
When the wedding was declared
on by the girl, the Tilted husband
demanded his S700 back. When he
failed 10 get it, the facts about the
lack Of real married status were
brought to the attention Of the i'm
migration officials. Meantime, the civil
marriage was annulled by State court
and the girl married younger man of
her own nationality. A hearing was
held, and II was clear from the evil
dence that the girl was not married in
reality when she entered the country,
but probably had gone through the
Cuban ceremony merely for the purpose
OF getting into the United States So
this country lost another inhabitant.
Although the Department Of Labor
has the power to order deportation in
great number Of cases, 1t exercises
that power with proper discretion.
The order, under present law, acts as a
perpetual bar TO re-entry into the
United States, so that In some cases Il
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