Monday, Nov. 08, 1926
Efficient Tangle
The U. S. immigration laws are so super-efficient that they often baffle, hurt. View the case of Anna Komarmicka, 30, Polish, pretty.
In 1910 her married sister, a U. S. citizen, brought her to this country. In Chicago she became a milliner. She took out her first citizenship papers; her second papers have been filed and now await a hearing. Last spring she received a message from Warsaw that her father was dying. Forthwith she applied for a permit to re-enter the U. S., obtained it, sailed for Poland. Her father recovered. She started back for Chicago. In Paris her purse and her permit were stolen, but the U. S. consul at Paris assured her that she would have no trouble re-entering this country. A month ago she arrived on the French liner Paris, was taken to Ellis Island where the Board of Special Inquiry ordered her exclusion. At the request of an agent of the French line, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis ordered her case reopened. Finally last week the board decided that she was the person to whom the. permit to leave and re-enter had been issued, but that the exclusion order must stand. Secretary Davis confirmed the ruling. So Miss Komarmicka was ordered deported.