Vigorous steps to prevent illegal Jewish immigration into Palestine, were announced today in the House of Commons by Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary of State for the Colonies in the British cabinet. The measures proposed by the Colonial Minister are directed particularly against Jewish tourists.
Jewish tourists coming from certain countries will be required to deposit sixty pounds as surety that they will not overstay, and only in exceptional cases will holders of Nansen, League of Nations, passports receive tourist visas for Palestine.
Sir Philip classified illegal immigration into two categories and declared that steps will be taken to cope with the situation.
In the first category are persons crossing the frontier from Syria. Steps will be taken with the French authorities to increase frontier control.
In the second classification are tourists for whose control an additional staff will be employed. A trained officer will organize the surveillance of the movements of such tourists detecting also those persons who entered Palestine in the past illegally and are still there.
Recipients of tourist visas or #ansit visas will be warned against settling in Palestine.
Sir Philip stressed the fact that legal immigration by means of certificates is not affected. Everyone will realize, he declared, that unauthorized immigration must be checked. Only the High Commissioner can judge the real absorptive capacity of Palestine, and illegal immigration has compelled the High Commissioner to reduce the schedule of certificates, he declared.
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