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Show CHECK UP ON CRIME BY ALIENS IN U. S. Crime by aliens In the United States Is believed of sufficient percentage per-centage to have considerable Influence Influ-ence for further restriction of immigration. immi-gration. This is the contention of the Americanism commission of the American Amer-ican Legion, which will use the re-suits re-suits of a survey of such crime in substantiating sub-stantiating the Legion's plea that all immigration be suspended over a tixed period of years. "Illicit traffic in drugs in the United States is directly traceable to aliens in the nation," Garland W. Powell, director of the Americanism commission commis-sion of the American Legion has declared. de-clared. "The Legion does not impute that all crime in the nation is committed com-mitted by aliens, but many law viola-tiops viola-tiops can be laid at the doors of those who disregard our laws, and who do not pay allegiance to the nation In which they live." In preparing for a survey of all courts, prison and penal Institutions, requests have gone out for the number num-ber of cases pending against aliens for robbery, murder, violations of the prohibition pro-hibition and narcotic acts and other crimes as compared with such cases against Americans. Similar Information Informa-tion is sought from prison authorities and heads of penal institutions. |