Because certain officials at Ellis Island and certain officials in the Labor Department here did not enforce the law as it was intended to be enforced. You can pass any number of laws. asIlhave repeatedly said. but if you do not enforce them. and do not have the men present to enforce them. they are of no effect. I have received any number of letters in regard to conditions at the island. showing the kind of treatment tlt is accorded the immigrant who comes here to become a loyal American citizen. and the other type. Perchance. if he is under age or if in. has not sufficient money he is shipped back within two oi three - 984 weeks. while some of these scoundrels and anarchists have been allowed at large.- It has taken four years of time. until this congressional committee got on the job. to get them startedback to where they belonged. The chairman of the committee has referred to the Bianca case.
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Some immigrants are loyal American citizens, while others are scoundrels and anarchists.