American Parents with an®
Italian Son Whatever may be thought of some of the immigration regulations jof the United States, it cannot be claimed that the Americans do not Jadhere strictly to their rules once they have been made.
Many anomalies have arisen dur-jing recent years in regard to the operation of various clauses of the immigration laws, but none, we think, more interesting and proving ithe utter fallacy of hard and fast rules than the case of Mrs, Theodore Anne Wernher, wife of prominent, "100 per cent.
Dusiness man of New "Corviere della Sera," Mrs, Wernher, in February of {this year, went on a visit to friends jin Italy." Her departure for home iwas delayed and while still in Italy she gave birth to a son.
She and her babe eventually left for the United States, but on arrival.at New York she was in-
{formed by immigration officials that jwhle she, as an American and the wife of an American, was free to and, her son, having' been born in Italy, was technically and legally fan Italian, As the quota of Italian immigrants had at that time been exhausted, her son would either have to be deported to Italy or to Ellis Island to wait admission with the first batch of Italian immigrants for the next immigration period. It is stated that the mother decided to go to Ellis Island with her child, deportation being pre. sumably out of the question, The whole affair appears exceeding strange, and one ix driven to Jder whether Mrs. Wernher could not have registered the birth of her son with one of the U.S. Consuls in Italy and so have sruaranteod hin American citizenship.
Apparently Mr, Punch's famous saw on the English law is equally applicable to America, Se
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