LIFE ON ELLIS ISLAND.
REPLY TO CRITICISM. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Australian aud N.Z Cabla Aseooiatiou. WASHINGTON, September 29. The Secretary of Labour, Mr J- J. Davis, answering Sir Auckland Geddes’s recent criticism of Ellis Island immigration station, states that if the British Government would limit its passports to immigrants bound to the United States to 10 per cent of the quota, number per month, and only to such of its nationals who were physically, mentally morally, and otherwise qualified, there would be no occasion for the to spend any time on Ellis Island. “ The finest palace in the world becomes distasteful to one who is a prisoner there.” Mr Davis added. “It is only natural that those detained on Ellis Island, because they are inadmissable, 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 is congestion which is not due to our own making. Every country in the world thoroughly ETiiows our im-
migration laws. An alien who, because the authorities in his own country grossly disregard American laws in issuing him a passport finds himself detained on Ellis Island fox* day s or weeks, naturally suffers.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17159, 1 October 1923, Page 10
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