ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
MASS SURRENDER BY POLES IN UNITED STATES Rec. 9.20 p.m. NEW YORK. Mar. 22. Sixty-three Polish nationals including five women, surrendered to-day as illegal immigrants, saying they wanted “to fight in the United States Army against Communism." All came to the United States as members of the crew of a Polish vessel and then deserted. They gave themselves up to-day in a mass ceremony at Jersey City City Hall. Thirty-nine Polish seamen surrendsred to the immigration authorities at Newmarket last week. They have been released in custody of New Jersey Polish-American Congress.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27038, 24 March 1949, Page 7
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