National Affairs: 5,000 Uninvited Chinese

Although 15 Chinese are in the custody of New York immigration officials, Secretary of Labor Davis estimates that there are at least 5,000 smuggled Chinese in New York City alone, that it would cost the Government $1,000,000 to deport them, and that deportation would be of little advantage since at least 5,000 more Chinese are in Cuba awaiting an opportunity to slip into this country.

From the White House came word the President would recommend to the next Congress vigorous measures to prevent the " bootlegging" of inadmissible aliens. It is said that smuggling...

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