Once an alien Japanese is on a boat. there is no restriction whatever to prevent him going ashore when his ship anchors in an American port. A Japanese or any other alien seaman does not even need an identification card. The usually strict immigration laws are very lax on alien seamen. The law provides that the master of the ship report within 60 days any alien seaman who leaves the vessel. An alien Japanese could leave a fishing boat in San Diego. for instance. go where he pleases for 59 days. and return to his boat without the master being required to report his absence. Japanese secret agents can land in the United States as fishermen. attend to their work. and return to their boats without even a record of their having entered the United States. If the captain does not wish to report any such "seaman." even if he does not show up after 60 dajs. no one is the wiser unless the secret agent is picked up. Or an agent can enter on 9. visitors visa for 6 months and probably get another 6 months extension with no one checking on his activities during his stay. This massing of Japanese naval and military men as seamen off the Pacific coast to fish is really for the purpose of fishing. but they are not fishing for fish. They have reached a point where they are absolutely dangerous to the safety of this country. and the time has come when we must protect our shores against any such operations as are now going on.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that Japanese seamen are secret agents.