Immigrants are detained at immigration stations for a varying period. The ordinary period of a detained immigrant would be two or. three days. The ordinary immigrant. with whom there is nothing the matter and who is suitable in every way. is not detained longer than it takes to examine him physically and to take his examination on the manifest. He is not detained more than two or three hours. The ones with whom we are interested. however. are detained anywhere from two days to a month. I will say to the gentleman from Illinois that When the Department of Commerce.and Labor sent people abroad to investigate the action of the steamship companies in 1905 and 1.906 every single inspector reported that the steamship subagents all through Europe. or in Austria and Italy and Russia. were advising people who could not get in ordinarily to New York to come through Philadelphia. because the law was not being enforced there as well as it was in other places.
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