It is not always easy for the captain to do. In many cases the individual would lie about it. The captain may exercise the best of faith and oftentimes find that he would accept men whom the immigration officials would reject when they came back. Suppose we did pass this bill in the form in which it stands? The net effect would be that the captain would decline to take on anybody the legality of whose presence here he suspected. Then that man would stay in this country. and the chances are we would never discover him. whereas if he is taken on board a vessel under the provisions of the bill as I propose to amend it. it merely means he will have to run a new gantlet on the return of the ship. and he is very apt to be picked up by the immigration officers.
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