AMERICA'S GATEWAY
NO PLACE FOR DETENTION
REPLY TO SIR AUCKLAND
GEDDES.
(UNITED FBESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIKIOHI.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) '. WASHINGTON, 29th Sept.' Mr. J. W. Davis, Secretary of Labour, answering Sir Auckland Geddes's recent criticism on Ellis Island, states : If the British Government would limit its passports to immigrants bound to the "United States to 10' per cent, the quota number per month, und only to such of its nationals who are physically, .mentally, morally, and otherwise qualified, there would bo no oc-casion.-for Britishers to. spend, time on Ellis Island. The finest' place in Hie world becomes distasteful to one who is a prisoner there, and it is only natural that those detained on Ellis Island because they are inadmissible will find it an unpleasant place. "Ellis Island is not intended to be a place of detention, but a gateway. • The cause of the conditions on Ellis Island 13 congestion, which is not due to our own making. Every country in the world thoroughly knows our immigration laws. An alien, who, because the authorities in his own country grossly disregard the American laws in issuing him a passport, finds himself detained on Ellis Island for days and weeks, naturally suffers."
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 79, 1 October 1923, Page 7
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199AMERICA'S GATEWAY Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 79, 1 October 1923, Page 7
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