San Francisco, Oct. 2.
"Let us see to it that Congress passes the proposed Deportation Bill—and then appropriate money enough to enforce it. properly.
Thus does Prof, Roy L. Gaus (Economies, Vanderbilt. University) conclude along article in a curent weekly magazine on the important matter of deportation of undesirable aliens in the United States, in which he discloses a sorry state of affairs in many parts of this country, traceable, so he claims, directly' to the fact that there are no less than nearly one anda half million aliens now in the country who have come in legally. The present immigration law was enacted in May, 1924; since that time the United States has checked the tide of immigration, though the task has been indifferently done, "yet exp hi taught us how to do it, it now up to us—what are we going. to do about it?"
On June 7 last the House of Representatives passed the Deportation Bill without a roll call. then went to the Senate Committee on Immigration, where it now rests, for, after holding two brief me ings, action was postponed by the Senate Committe until December next, That the Immigration Acts of 1917 and 1924.—particularly the Intter—have made it possible to limit, at all events, to a great extent, the entry into this country of undesirable and dangerous aliens, is noticeable anybody with eyes in his head. It has also numerically checked the number of immigrants to what Prof. Gaus calls "safe limits But from a strictly American standpoint, much more needs to be done.
Every undesirable type of immigrant is now excluded by law from entering the country, yet it is stounding how many get in who legal right to be here.
furthermore," says the writer I quote, and it has to be admitted that he is right in what he claims, "the experiences and events everyday life have made it obvious that there are many now here who fare a menace to our general welfare and to our national existence.
Although there should be no objec~ tion to the deportation of aliens who constitute a menace to or are unjust burden upon our Government, yet objections are heard from various sourees—virtually all which come from those opposed to restrictions on immigration."
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