The privilege i denied to nationals other than those of Great Britain or France and citizens of Cuba. Panama. and.Mexico residing in these nearby places of coining into the United States. under this new regulation. without passports or without the visaing of passports. Presumably they will be amenable to the immigration laws. I know nothing to the contrary. But in advices received from San Francisco within the last five days it appears that Judge Rudkin. judge of the Federal court. held that a Japanese seamai who had escaped from a Japanese vessel. a deserter. when apprehended could not be returned. that there was no law by which such a seaman escaping from a vessel could be deported. That is the customary way of seeking entry by those ineligible to land. not only the Japanese but anarchists and Bolshevists and those who are bent upon the destruction of our Government. it is claimed. They come in as seanen.
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Japanese and other unwanted people seek entry as seamen.