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Shreveport, Caddo County, Louisiana
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Acting Immigration Agent Meehan in El Paso, Texas, has been intercepting imported pauper contract laborers from Mexico destined for railroad work in the Southwest. Officials plan stricter measures if the practice continues, as the law penalizes such importations.
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Severe Measures Will Be Taken Against
Importation from Mexico,
El Paso, Tex., Aug. 3.-Acting Immigration
Agent Meehan has had his
hands full for several weeks intercept-
ing the scores imported pauper con-
tract laborers who seek to enter this
port and go out into New Mexico, Ari-
zona or Texas to work on the railroads
of the southwest. Not a day has passed
recently but what the inspector has had
to pick up a bunch or two of hopeless
looking paupers from old Mexico, who
have been sent here by labor agents
working in the interior.
The only action taken by the depart-
ment thus far is to convey these people
back across the border, but more severe
measures are contemplated unless the
practice of importing the starving pau-
pers is discontinued by the contractors.
The law provides a penalty for those
who import the paupers under contract,
but it has not been invoked at this point
and the contractors have thus far es-
caped unscathed. Furthermore it is be-
lieved that after the laborers are de-
ported they sneak back into the United
States and are conveyed by the railway
companies to the graders' camps or
other gangs where they are needed.
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Where did it happen?
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
El Paso, Tex.
Event Date
Aug. 3
Key Persons
Outcome
laborers conveyed back across the border; more severe measures contemplated; penalty law not yet invoked; laborers believed to sneak back in.
Event Details
Acting Immigration Agent Meehan intercepts imported pauper contract laborers from Mexico entering at El Paso to work on southwest railroads; sent by interior labor agents; daily bunches picked up; department plans stricter action if practice continues.