Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1910 — SMUGGLING UNDESIRABLES. [ARTICLE]

SMUGGLING UNDESIRABLES.

Clerer Schemers Ct roomventln* the Immigration Laws; The Belgian authorities have been advised of systematic frauds which are being practiced against the American Immigration laws at Antwerp, Rotterdam, Marseilles and other ports. It Is alleged that certain Armenians and other undesirables who have been deported from Ellis Island have reshipped as sailors and firemen, by bribery of the ships’ officers, arriving at American ports as seamen. They then desert the ships, and thus evade the Immigration authorities. These frauds, It Is stated, are being conducted by a band whose headquarters Is at Constantinople, with ramifications to all of the great European ports. They speculate In labor, paying high prices to secure the entrance into the United States of aliens, whose wages they collect, pocketing the difference between the actual wages paid and their contract with the aliens. -Washington authorities state that although they have been aware of the fact that aliens In the guise of sailors are coming Into the United States fraudulently, the Immigration officials are unable to prevent such practice. Petty officers of transatlantic vessels permit the enlistment of foreigners, and when they reach American shores they are given shore leave. .Desertion follows and the aliens remain. The subject will soon be brought to the attention of Congress with a vievrioTemeSlal' legislatlon.