C. B.: Fiftyfour years old. 27 years in the country. has been arrested eight times and has served 10 years 3 months in prison. These men cannot legally be deported. On the other hand Is the case of two sisters. 9 and 10. natives of Canada. brought to this country when infants illegally by their mother. who died a year later. The childrens father. who has since been deported. brought them to Lebanon. Pa.. to the home of their uncle and aunt. who have cared for the motherless little girls as though they were their own. and wish to adopt them. Under our present laws. the deportation of these children is required. A prosperous farmera naturalized citizen--owns a thousandacre farm just this side of the Canadian border. A son. who was 21 when his father became a citizen. and who has not yet taken out his citizenship papers. walked across the road into Canada to make a call. Returning. he took a short cut across fields to his home. By this act he Is guilty of illegal entrance. and his deportation is required. Our present immigration laws are not in conformity with modern ideasthey are making it impossible to deal in a humane manner with many of the cases that come before the Department. and they prevent the deportation of alien criminals and racketeers who are a menace to lawabiding American citizens.
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