I dare say there should be Treasury agents abroad. and no doubt there should be reporting and investigating abroad by agents of the Department of Commerce. But time responsibility and the decisions should head up in one plae--that is. the )epartment of Stateand the general policy should be fixed there in advance. On the evening of March 31.1927. the Assistant Secretary of Labor sent over to the Department of State an order which the Department of Labor had issued. going into effect April 1. restraining all alien commuters coming across the Canadian border daily to work in the United States. unless they could produce immigration visas. This matter had been allowed to run along from July 1. 1924. when the new immigration law went into effect. with nothing said about it. Indeed. the Secretary of Labor wrote a letter to the mayor of Windsor. Canada. that no change of policy was contemplated.
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