The foreign flood of would-be
Americans was expected to be so
enormous that even employes of the
labor department were detailed to
work with the regular force of im
migration inspectors and examiners,
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(■rentent Alien Hunh.
The greatest difficulty in handling
the pell-mell rush of immigrants was
expected not from the sea entrances
to the United States, but from the
strategic points of the Canadian bor
der and Cuba and the West Indies.
“It will be the greatest alien rush
on the portals of the United States in
the history of this country,” in the
belief of Commissioner Husband.
The reason is that, although the
quota law has only been in operation
for two years, the restrictions thus
placed on immigration into the Unit
ed States have caused those reeking
happiness in this country to redouble
their efforts in reaching here first,
thus greatly augmenting the volume
of the migration as it first descends
on American shores each year. Im
migration also has Increased from all
parts of Europe.
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Encampments of Allens.
Then there were the encampments
of aliens, which for- the last few
days moved forward seeking points
of vantage for the moment w'hen the
bars were let down from parts of
Canada and Cuba and the West Indies.
The immigration bureau ordered
as large as force of additional in
spectors as it could commandeer at
the Canadian border stations and
Key West to handle the rush from
these nearby environs. The main
force of Immigration operatives was
concentrated principally along the
Atlantic seaboard.
