Contraband Aliens

Official figures on immigration do not tell the whole story, however. The business of smuggling aliens into the country is proceeding at an alarming rate. Estimates of the number gaining illegitimate entry is from 100 to 1,000 a day--or between 36,500 and 365,000 a year. The number of aliens deported last year was 4,366, a small fraction of either number.

It is obvious, therefore, that although only 358,000 immigrants arrive officially, the actual number is considerably greater, and Southern Europeans and Mexicans are probably arriving in numbers several times as great as their quotas.

Secretary of Labor Davis is planning to remedy this condition. He believes that the only solution is a strict enrollment system for aliens. An "Alien Educational Bill" which he is preparing to submit to the 68th Congress contains three provisions: selective choice of prospective immigrants by our agents abroad; immediate registration of all aliens admitted to the country; compulsory Americanization meetings which all aliens must attend for five years after their arrival.