But to return to the question propounded by my friend from Louisiana . I submit to him that one of the objects of the bill is to prevent American or other vessels from bringing to the United States. under the guise of bona fide seamen. persons who are mala fide seamen. If persons are brought by such ships to United States ports. they are to be inspected. and if it shall be discovered that they are mala fide seamen. they are to be deported at the expense of the ship which brought them but in another vessel. It seems to me in the interest of the proper execution of our immigration laws. and for the purpose of preventing persons entering the Unfted States who are inadmissible under the immigration laws. that the shipping companies who bring them to our shores should bear the expense of returning them to the country from which they came. Persons not entitled to entrance mingle with the population. and it is a major task to ferret them out and deport them. Some one must bear this expense. and it is submitted that the vessels responsible for their presence in the United States should bear all the expense incident to their deportation. It must be done either by the ships that bring them here or by the taxpayers of the United States through the instrumentalities which have been set up by the Government.
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