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...five year maximum sentence for all violations of the Volstead Act, thereby making any infraction of this law a felony whereas before minor first offenses had been only misdemeanors* Several misdemeanors are necessary to deport an undesirable alien. For one felony he may be sent promptly out of the U.S. By this penal change alien bootleggers may be shipped swiftly from the country...
Postponement. The British burned most early U. S. census details in the sack of Washington in 1814. Native stock, clear in the early days, was blurred by intermarriage with alien newcomers. Historical data is scant or unreliable. Racial names have become meaningless through social changes. So the 2Oth Century scientists bogged down in confusion and Congress in 1927, postponed the effective date of National Origins to July 1, 1928; later to July 1, 1929, where it now remains...
...Passed an immigration bill authorizing deportation of alien gunmen, bootleggers, undesirables...
Many a U. S. officer and diplomat has a foreign wife, and many another is himself of recent alien extraction (TIME...
Sharp official eyes search the gay streets of the Greek quarter of Tarpon Springs, Fla. Alien sponge divers (TIME, Jan. 21) move aside, shift their glance away. Along the waterfront, among the gaudy antique boats', has gone the whispered warning: U. S. Immigration inspectors are about the town to check smuggling of aliens. Every stranger is a suspect...