Byron H. Uhl, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, who is marking forty years of service at the Island, expressed the viewpoint on Monday that immigration should have been halted in 1900 instead of in 1924.
Mr. Uhl stated that had this been done lawlessness might have been checked.
“Most of this lawlessness can be traced in the majority of individual cases to aliens or the first generation of their descendants,” Mr. Uhl holds. “Now we are gradually ridding the country of undesirables but it is a long and tedious job and we would have been spared the trouble if the immigration rush had been terminated sooner.”
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