ALIEN MENACE

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21231, 30 September 1940, Page 2

ALIEN MENACE

FINGERPRINT REGISTER RII.I. SIGNED BY KOOSEVELT President Roosevelt signed into law recently a bill requiring registration and lingcrprinting of approximately 3,500,000 aliens in the United States, states the Christian Science Monitor. In a statement issued simultaneously, the President expressed hope that no “loyal aliens’’ would be subjected to harrassment in the course of this programme, but added: “With those aliens who are disloyal and are bent on harm to this country the Government, through its law enforcement agencies, can and will deal vigorously.” In effect. President Roosevelt reproved some States and communities which have undertaken to deal with aliens individually. “The only effective system of control over aliens in this country must come from the Federal Government alone,” his statement said. “This is as true from a practical point of view as it is from a legal and constitutional point of view. “Since Congress, by the Act, has attempted to provide a single and uniform method of handling this difficult problem of alien registration in this country, it seems to me that attempts by the states or communities to deal with the problem individually will result in undesirable confusion and duplication."