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Show S4 f"T" Vs ; V-J ; ' W THE. ittjFFlK ; ' r R Washington! a Hindu Kvad in Canada and worked In Ooirolt. married an American girl, moved across the llne and from the union a baby, natural born American citizen, was born. Although thoroughly Americanized. it happened that this Hindu father j was born in a spot In tho Far East I from which persona now are forbidden to enter America. This Hindu's I mother, still In the old country, was ! to undergo an operation and the I Hindu rc'urneel on a visit te his na-I na-I live land, to bo with her In her last hours When the Hindu returned to Kills Island, he told the immigration Inspectors In good American English I he wanted to land. But when he 'answered the o.uest!nn "where were you horn?" admission was refused. .And the- Canadian immigration inspectors inspec-tors stationed at Ellis Island wouhln t let him ko to Canaela. I Louis Post, assistant secretary of labor, settled the controversy by letting let-ting tho Hindu Into America to visit him family a year and doesn't expect to hear from him again. This was a humane and Just violation of an unjust un-just law. Post knows how to sup- plant injustice with Justice. All the Immigration laws need overhauling over-hauling Twenty years ngo an Italian came to America, and learned to speak English well enough for his own pur-I pur-I poses, but not to read It Marrying an American girl, he had two boys. He returned to Italy for a visit when these two hoys were 1-1 and 10, and while away the law requiring an Immigrant Immi-grant to read forty wofds in Bngllah was passed This stopped him at Ellis , bland on his ret urn. Post tried lo find a lawful WAS ' ' let him Into the country, and thought he had discovered It In the clause admitting ad-mitting relatives of American citizens If they are over ij. But he found the lather wns only 51. Under the strict letter of the law, there was nothing to bo done The Italian father would have- to desert his famllv and return to ltflly. Old Louis Post permit this tragedy to happen ? He did pot He admitted ad-mitted the Italian on a visit for five years and when his visit expires he will admit him permanently as a ' relative over 6 5. ' |