Show Y LECIE STATE DEADLINES ES MAY SlAY DE BE E ONLY SOLUTION OF MEXICAN IM IM- IMMIGRATION IMMIGRATION IM- IM MIGRATION PROBLEM PRO LEI By Dr RODNEY DUTCHER NEA TA Sen te Writer WASHINGTON Nov 16 The The lat lat- latest lat lat- est cst immigration problem expedient of setting up lip Immigration boundaries along state lines Congress probably would not con con- consider sider such a proposal seriously but butt It t has possibilities Mexican Immigration is tile the problem lem em referred to The present quota law aw designed to restrict the great hegira of 01 aliens from Europe docs does not apply to Mexico or Canada Mex- Mex MexIcan iran Ican can immigration has been Increasing rapidly Official records show th the tha arrival al of more than including Ing ng for 1927 and large num- num numbers hers bers ers are supposed to have crossed the border unofficially Labor unions Secretary of 01 Labor Labo Davis and certain congressmen have ha urged the inclusion of Mexicans with- with withIn within In n the quota law and the question will come before the next congress in the form orm of the Box bill which proposes to place Mexican immigration on the same quota basis as European gration There will be b a fight over the bill however howe Cr with mth areas along the Mex- Mex MexIcan Iran Ican can border lined up against it The sc sentiment behind the Box bill bills billis is s based on the fact that Mexican laborers are penetrating the country to northern steel mills and railroads and doing the heavy h vy Jobs formerly performed by European workers Their work Is mostly unskilled la labor la- la bor but they are offering the sane same competition which the quota laws erected against Europeans was sup- sup supposed supposed posed x sed to stop and their presence pre pro presumably presumably aggravates unemployment nt conditions caused by our o.- o. n Fur yur- ur plus of labor If the 1924 quota law were applied to Mexico Immigration from Irons that country would be cut to about 3 per cent of the present figure The opposition to the Box Bot bill and similar proposals comes most moot vigor vigor- from California and South Smith Tex rex Texas as as which areas depend Importantly on Mexican labor for agricultural purposes Every year jear during tha th fruit and vegetable season thousands thousand of or Mexicans cross croos the border bord r from So- So Sonora Sonora nora nom and Lower California to help harvest cst the thc crops Some of them stay and work as farm fum ha had d the jear ear sar around The demand of this section for lor labor Is a seasonal demand and Mexico offers the cheapest If not the he only source Business men and representatives Cs of ot agricultural ag and horticultural In Interests In- In Interests banded together In the Asso Asso- Association 1 for lor Development of Califor CallIor- California nia have ae appointed ap a D. commission to corns com to and oppose the thc Box Bo bill The ht South J as chamber of or commerce was expected to take some action at It Its us meeting In IlIc Nov No NoH 14 H and 15 Secretary Davis Baste has suggested Urn Urn- lImIting lung Mexican Immigration to skill skilled skilled skilled ed workers of the thc kind needed throughout the United States which h he e believes could be effected by ex extension ex- ex extension tension of the quota law but this hardly would solve the question for forthe forthe the border farmers who may be Join joIn- Joined joIned joined ed in their attitude by some indus indus- industrial industrial trial ti-lal employers empl ers of unskilled labor On the other hand someone may yet make snake the novel Dovel proposal that a n. border for lor immigration purposes be drawn around the California and Tex Tex- Texas Texas Texas as American borders or on some line between those and ond the Mexican bor bor- der This would limit Mexican im- im atlon to the sections where here Mex Mex- Mexican MexIcan ican lean labor is n desired and pre prevent pre pre- prevent vent it from seeping Into the un unskilled un- un skilled labor marts of the north It might be a scheme which would make everybody happy |