Hayden. who hails from Cass County. Mich.. now the very efficient Washington correspondent of the Detroit News. on April 30. wrapped the situation up very completely and very neatly when he wrote: WASHINGTON. April 30.-When a regional immigration officer last week blew his top and spirited one William Heikkila off to his native Finland. only to haul him back due to protest by a Federal judge. the United States Immigration Service was made to look ridiculous. But an effect of that incident may be to prod Congress into passing a bill long requested by President Eisenhower to check the endless legal ring around by which many convicted aliens delay and frequently defeat final orders for deportation. The most famous victor in that line was Harry Bridges. west coast labor leader. first recommended for deportation by a Seattle immigration office in 1937 and finally freed from a fourth deportation order by a San Francisco Federal judge in 1955--a span of 18 years. Once in the meantime Bridges was convicted of perjury and sentenced to 5 years In prison. but exonerated by a 4 to 3 (less than full majority) decision of the Supreme Court In 1954.
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