Of course. Ellis Island. the place with which I used to be the most acquainted. requires a good many people. There are something like 500 employees there. and the number is not greatly affected by the rise and fall in immigration. The buildings are there and they have to be cared for. they have to be heated. they have to be cleaned. and the detention rooms have to be policed. and the addition of five or six hundred thousand immigrants. although that is a good many. does not necessarily greatly increase the force. Then. at a time like this. with comparatively -slack immigration. the department carries out another very valuable provision.of the law. They send these inspectors all over the country. and they inspect the jails and asylums. and they look up people who are not proper charges on the United States Treasury. and they provide for sending them home. In that way work is done during slack immigration that can not be done at other times. Just at present they have additional work along the Mexican border. I am frank to say that I do not know the exact length of the southern -boundary. of Arizona.
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