Evening star., 1932-07-24

what too late to be of the greatest use
fulness but the condition Of the United
States today would be intellectually worse
were it not for the immigration BARRIERS
As this is written there is nearing New
York City a whole trainload of immi-
grants-outward bound. The train
started, in sections, at San Francisco and
Los Angeles. It grew steadily as the
tinent was crossed, and to it were added
cars that came up from the Southwest
and down from the North. From all
parts of the country, big cities and little
towns, that train Is drawing passengers;
aliens who have no right to remain in
this country; many who had no right
to enter in the first place, and came in
as law-breakerS. At New York City the
train will come to a stop and its paSSen-
gers will be embarked upon boats for the
countries from which they came.
The deportation trains run westward,
too, picking up deportable aliens who are
going back to the Orient, whence they
came unlimited and illegally.
Those trains have been crossing and
recrossing the country all through the
months of this year and last year. They
will continue to run as long as we find
deportable aliens-and the end is not
yet i'll sight. We sent 1912 aliens out
of the country last year, and we sent out
16,021 during the first four months of
1882. Many other thousands are going,
by request, without the issuance of orders
of deportation, in the hope that they
may be legally readmitted in years to
come under the quota provisions of the
law. But those whom we are obliged to
eject by deportation warrant proceedings
may never come back unless, in meri-
torious cases, they receive permission
from the department.
Undoubtedly the deportationS occasion
some hardship to some of those deported.
But there is hardship also to thousands
of American citizens who are idle be-
cause the jobs they could fill are held by
foreign-born men and women who en-
tered this country illegally, knowing that
they were 1aw-breakers-and who paid
high for that |'privilege-''
Secretary Doak, who has labored un-
ceasingly to bring about higher degree
of immigration law enforcement, has
estimated that there are at least 100000
dlItILS Illegally Ill ILLS COUlCIy. 1Hc
probabilities are that there are many
more than that.
THE public is excited to sympathy occa-
sionally for alien deportees by stories
OF hardship arising out Of enforcement
of the law. But there is another side to
the picture that the public seldom
glimpseS; the hardship inflicted upon
own people through evasion of the
immigration laws. That hardship may
have come about through displacement
of half a dozen American-born musicians
in an orchestra by aliens, willing to work
for much less, who came in as artists"
under a special provision of the law,
which now is amended to prevent such
injustice.
One of our inspectors accompanying
the deportation trains recently told me
that he was moved to sympathy by the
pathetic story of injustice" related to
him by woman who was being deported.
She said that she had established little
cigar counter and lunch business in a
Western city and was doing well with it,
using part of the profits to support an
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a competitor, she said, had become jeal-
Gus of her success. sought to buy her
lease, and when he failed, reported her.
The inspector on his next trip West
took time to investigate the case and
found the facts quite different Her cigar
and lunch counter, it was discovered, had
been merely a blind to cover her real
business of procuress.
We deported from one of the larger
cities year or two ago an alien who
had entered the country illegally to
escape the consequences Of crime COM
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