IMMIGRATION LAW

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 June 1924, Page 9

IMMIGRATION LAW

LACKS FLEXIBILITY. A CASH OF HARDSHIP. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received June 23. 10.10 a.m. NEW YORK, June 21. The injurious inflexibility of the immigration law was again illustrated when Lady Theodore Wernher, daugh-ter-in-law o! Lady Ludlow, was detained upon her arrival from Italy with a month old daughter, who was born in Milan. Lady Wernher, although born in Petrograd, is admissible under the ruling that an alien resident of rbe United States may return after six months’ absence, but the infant was not admissible because Italy’s quota had been exhausted. Sir Derrick \\ ember, who has been a resident of the United States for the past five years, is at present in England after a. five months’ tour of Italy with his wife, who, although ill, returned to the United States with her baby and nurse as first cabin passengers. Lady Wernher attempted to override the officials declaring that detention would probably be physically harmful, but while an appeal is being made to Washington, the officials declared that the law must be rigorously enforced. thiee will be taken to Ellis Island ostensibly awaiting deportation.—Aus.iVZ. t able Assn.