Evening star., 1938-01-24
Secretary's Report on
Alien immigration
To the Editor Of The Star:

10 the Eoit0r OF Inc star:
The printed annual report of the Sec
retary of Labor is finally out for the
fiscal year ending the 30th Of last June,
and at last are available the few immi-
grafton statistics, published In striking
contrast with the full information and
far more informative immigration sta
tistics made public by all her predeces-
sors. But 1t is apparent from the few
pages on immigration in her whole re-
port Of only 1877 pages that 1881 1884
aliens Of all classes were admitted" to
the United States legally last year, as
compared with only 100, ,s99 for the previ-
Gus year, or an increase of over 81 per
cent, indicating the immigration flood
has started in again.
According to her all too brief annual
report there were 29,022,710 alien border
crossings from Canada and on the Mex
ican border 22,699379; and there were
only S829 alien laWbreakers deported, in
striking contrast with 19, 1865 in 1888 and
every year previous to the present Sec
retary's incumbency. In other words,
SAASS 9SNACt0ly IClAHlS tOOk OulCc we
have an over so per cent increase in
aliens legally admitted and q decrease
OF over so per cent in alien lawbreakers
deported
The fact that only 50,244 of the 23l 1884
allen entrants last year are classified as
allen immigrants" 38 per cent in
crease for the year over 1896 every one
OF whom admits coming here permanent
~ and therefore to get job or be de-
pendent on some one who has a job or
rehe1) cannot be considered as all the
immigration" because OF her staying
deportations Of illegal entrants and other
alien lawbreakers and her allowing tenn
porary entrants like visitors, students,
embassy employees ct al. to change their
temporary admission status in spite Of
their express promises and the express
condition on which they are admitted
ana In nat defiance of the law, because
she says they have adopted or had an
Ameflcan-born child or have married
some American, and the like.
An American who breaks certain laws
Is separated from his family and should
be, but such an alien must not be de-
ported, according to Secretary Perkins,
VINO even releases alien perjurers, forgers,
extortlonlSts, thieves, embezzlers. big
smists and the like from her custody"
'when the law says they must be de-
ported. with letters addressed to Ca
madam immigration authorities, as 4 re-
suit OF treaty arrangement she ne
gotiated. assuring the Canadian author
tiles the alien named will be permitted
to re-enter the United States even II
he fails to get the law-required immigra-
ton visa from our consuls), to 20 to
Canada and try to get an immigration
visa to enter legally! In other words, we
humanely make an exception in favor Of
rear relatives. which she builds up into
hardship case and law notification.
Recently the House Subcommittee on
Appropriations secured from the Depart
ment OF State a list of some of the aliens
who had been so released from her Gus
tody to go to Canada to enter here legal
iy. and refused visas by our consuls only
to then be admitted to the United States
by the Secretary of Labor under dis
cretions known as the seventh and ninth
provisos in section 3 of the 1917 Immi-
grafton Act. One Of these aliens had
even been convicted Of manslaughter
and arrested and held in custody by the
Secretary for deportation!
Last year !. .828 aliens were admitted
non quota as students not being subjected
to the same inspection and examination
as are quota immigrants. They swore
and promised not to change their tenn
porary admission status and to do noth-
ing that would change 1t and not to get
job. in order to get admitted non quota
as students. Only 1.424 such aliens de-
parted last year. That Is characteristic.
Hundreds more Of students are admitted
annually than depart. Since Nine.
Frances Perkins became Secretary sew
eral thousand students have got lost
in the crowd or allowed by her TO remain
in the United States"
The student device is only one of many
ways by which inadmissible and other
aliens inadmittable are allowed to evade
the law and get into our country, thus
increasing Immigration" illicitly, and in
ways that do not show up in official i'm
migration statistics and that result in
the fictitious assertion: THE alien is
vanishing" and I'VE have no immigra-
ton now when last fiscal year nearly
quarter million aliens entered legally
and doubtless as many illegally, judging
by the hundreds apprehended entering
surreptitiously. the many thousands of
dollars worth of speed boats, high
powered autos and even airplanes seized
annually, by our inadequate immigra-
ton patrols. actually smuggling aliens
into the United States. j. D. MASON.
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