The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-26
CONGRESS- WILL
FACE BATTLE
ON ALIEN LAWS
Deportation Wings to Be
Clipped If Fight Is
Successful.
BY KENNETH G. CRAWFORD
Times Stan Writer


BUFFALO, N. Y, Oct. 26.-A
fight for liberalization of present
alien deportation laws has been
promised by congressional candi-
dates from Buffalo districts.
Regardless of whether Republic
ans or Democrats are elected, there
will be at least three men in the
house of representatives definitely
pledged to work before the immigra-
ton committee for legislation to clip
the deportation wings of Labor Sec
rotary w. N. Doak, or his successor.
Representative Edmund Cooke of
the Forty second district, one of the
sponsors of the Dickstein bill, which
would permit naturalized aliens to
bring members of their families into
this country on a non-quota basis,
hopes to force that measure to a
vote.
Scores Of foreign born citizens in
Buffalo have found it impossible to
bring members of their families still
in Europe to their new homes under
the drastically reduced quotas. And
the number of broken families daily
is being increased by deportations.
Boy Faces Orphan Asylum
Almost every man and woman de-
ported leaves in this country the
remnants Of family.
In most cases members not held
deportable by the immigration bu-
reau find it impossible to get to-
gether the cost of voluntary pass
age.
Recently at Niagara Falls, labor
department operatives found flaw
in the method by which Mr. and
Mrs. Angus MacClean, a Scotch
couple, gained admittance to the
United States in 1927. They mis-
represented facts about themselves
in their applications for entry.
They were ordered sent back to
Scotland. But their 3-year-old son,
born in this country, was citizen
of the United States. Immigration
officials could not provide his pass
age money. Neither could the Mac
Cleans.
Neighbors saved the boy from an
orphan asylum.
Held "On Suspicion"
In many such cases the state well
fare department has footed the
transportation bill for children, who
were citizens, to accompany their
parents who were not There is no
provision in the federal law to pro-
vide for such cases.
Cooke also will propose a bill, If
rejected, to set a definite time on
the time prospective deportees may
be held by immigration authorities
for investigation.
He wants to make it impossible
for aliens to be held on suspicion
of wrong doing for the better part
of year and then released, as they
have been repeatedly in Buffalo.
In one such case, immigration Of
ficials under Arthur j. Karnuth,
chef of the local force, were repri-
manded severely by Federal Judge
John Knightofur holding prisoner
seven months without sufficient evi-
dence for Punishment. The prisoner
was 21-year-old Italian girl,
Christina Farrara.
Inquiry Is Demanded
She was arrested unceremoniouSly
and held in Jail seven months be-
fore a lawyer finally was hired by
her friends to seek writ of habeas
corpus. After a hearing on the
evidence she promptly was dis
missed.
Representative James M. Mead,
chairman of the house postofflce
committee, a Buffalo congressman
running for reelection, Tuesday
called to the attention of Chairman
Samuel Dickstein of the house i'm
migration committee, deportation
abuses brought to light by the Buff
falo Times.
In letter to Dickstein, Mead de-
manded a thorough investigation of
the immigration bureaus activities
in this district, with a view to en-
actment of legislation depriving the
labor department Of its present
omnipotence in deportation cases.
Volunteers Defend Aliens
Henry Adsit Bull, another con-
gressional candidate, has promised
an attempt to repeal the wartime
law providing that any alien guilty
of "subversive views" is eligible for
exile.
Meanwhile, a group of twenty
five lawyers, including one-time
bar association president, a city
JUICE, a state assemblyman, three
former federal attorneys and sew
eral former members Of the district
attorneys staff. have organized a
volunteer committee to defend
aliens now held in Buffalo and vi
cinity.