IMMIGRATION: Efficient Tangle

The U. S. immigration laws are so super-efficient that they often baffle, hurt. View the case of Anna Komarmicka, 30, Polish, pretty.

In 1910 her married sister, a U. S. citizen, brought her to this country. In Chicago she became a milliner. She took out her first citizenship papers; her second papers have been filed and now await a hearing. Last spring she received a message from Warsaw that her father was dying. Forthwith she applied for a permit to re-enter the U. S., obtained it, sailed for Poland. Her father recovered. She started...

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