UNDESIRABLES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 417, 28 January 1909, Page 5

UNDESIRABLES.

ALIENS IN BRITAIN.

CRITICISM OF THE EXISTING LAW. "PRESSING DANGER." |DI lELEBR*rH—I'RESS AFSOCUTIOM—COPIBIOBI.! London, January 20.' The newspapers sfcato that tho two Russian dcspoiadocs (who, aft'ei stealing £100 from a motor-car, ran amok from Tottenham to Walthamstow, killing tao pel sons, and who wore finally killed oi committed suicide) had been fiequontly employed ill carrying revolutionary liteiature and arms from London,to Riga.

JURY'S OPINION. (Rec January 27, 11 4p p.m'.) London, January 27. The jury in the Tottenhnm-Walthnnlstow tragedy desired the Coroner to draw the attention of tho Home Secretary (3lr. Gladstoned to the pressing danger to which tho country is subjected under tho existing conditions as to the admittance of aliens. THE ALIENS ACT.

, During 1906 the numbery-bf ; alien's;; .recom-; mended by the British 'Courts' for expulsion under the.Aliens Act was 435, and it would appear that t. oa vory great extent the causes of;. ; expulsion were ."professional"'--,-crimes!, against-property and 'offences 'against morality:' The Act provides for the exolusion of ; undesirable immigrants, an immigrant being: considered 'suoh-f(a) if; he .cannofvshowi.'thatihe-bas-in his possession,' or is .in ; i\.'position to; obtain, the means of decently.supporting Himself'-and his dependents-(if any)'; or (b) if he'is'a'/una-tio-'oir idiot, .or owing to any disease or firmity appears likely to-become a charge, upon the rates or otherwise a detriment to' lic; or (o). if • he has been sentenced' in a foreign country. with • which 'there is an extradition' treaty for a crime, not; being.an offence of a political- charaoter, .which.,is, as respects, that country, an extradition crimo within the meaning of. .the Extradition Act, 1870;' or (d) if. iih expulsion order' under. this Act has bean made in his case.'■','-There•'•js'-a''provisoi*'as.to political, and religious i who .'may -not [ be refused on the; ground merely'of want of means, or the probability, of their becoming a charge. on the rates. . The Act: empowers"-, the., Secretary of State, if he, thinks fit, to make an expulsion .order requiring an alien,. con-; victed of crime or without means of subsist-, ence, to leave the • United Kingdom within: a fixed ".'time}' and thereafter' to\; reiuaiii'.'but''of,' the.-. kingdom: ; The Act! makes a''-' distinction; between '"non-immigrant" ships_ which ':»re' : not', liable to inspection and "immigrant ships"— i.e., 1 those: ; landing .more; .than -twenty:'. -alien steerage passengers.'. '^:.;.',-:■ ■;,;■"■'.;'' : --..-;;;.i' ; > '-.