Let me read a statement made by a representative of the Department of Labor who appeared a year or two ago before our committee. He and others testified to the fact that large numbers of seamen deserted. mingled with the population. and remained here. putting the Government of the United States to an expense of millions of dollars to ferret them out and deport them. He stated that upon some of the vessels coming from oriental ports into United States ports there were as many as 50 or 60 or 70 Chinese who became deserters and mingled with the population and. as I indicated. subjected our country to heavy burdens in order to effect their deportation. When we realize that 500.000 or 600.000 have illegally entered the United States within the past 10 years. most of them under the guise of seamen when they were not. it is obvious that there are leaks in our immigration system which should be repaired. I invited attention yesterday to a statement made by Secretary Doak that quite recently 100.000 mala fide seamen had come into the United States. that the department was seeking to effect their deportation. and that some of them who had been here more than three years insisted that the running of the statute of limitations prevented their deportation. Fortunately the court construed the law differently from the construction placed upon it by those aliens who had illegally and fraudulently come into the United States. and many are being deported. How are we going to prevent these constant evasions? The evasions come through men shipping as seamen when they are not.
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