The situation regarding seamen and aliens smuggled in by steamships is indicated by the following abbreviated table from Mr. Hulls report: Alen seamen deserted. ordered held on board vessel. escaped. removed from vessel. certified for contagious disease. and removed to hospital for treatment. as specified Deserted: Chinese -------------------------------------------76 Japanese ....... --------------- 12 Others ------------------------------------------ 1.256 Total ---------------1.344 Ordered held on board vessel: Under sec. 20. Immigration Act of 1924 ---------------3. 087 Not on visaed crew list ----------------------------8.036 Escaped after being ordered detained on vessel --------------25 Removed to immigration station or elsewhere for safekeeping pending departure of vessel ------------------------153 Certified for loathsome or dangerous contagious disease .... 827 Diseased and other seamen removed to hospital for treatment ... ------------------------------------------842 I want to emphasize that the professional smuggler. who is connected with a national or international ring that operates to get into this country aliens who otherwise could not come here. seems to experience little or no difficulty in getting criminal aliens by the thousands through the side doors left open by our immigration laws. while on the other hand honest. lawabiding citizens of the United States and upstanding aliens lawfully here for permanent residence are met with all kinds of obstacles when they try to bring into this country near relatives which the law entitles them to bring in to Join the family circle here. Furthermore. certain smuggled aliens whose records are none too savory travel about with what sometimes appears to be immunity from immigration inspection. while on the other hand husbands of lawabiding American citizens with wife and Americanborn children are subjected to long detention in prisons and immigrant stations without bond pending a determination of their status here. These inequitable operations of the law and regulations promulgated under the law are subjects for investigation by this committee. as proposed by this resolution. Now. in closing let me call the attention of the Members of this House who voted against the adoption of House Resolution 50 to the fact that by your actionthat is. by your voteI dare say you have extended aid and comfort to every person engaged in the nefarious profession of alien smuggling. they are watching the course of this resolution perhaps as carefully as you are. and I dare say that history will prove that your vote against this resolution providing for an investigation into these smuggling practices will bounce back to vex you among your own constituents.
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