"4. The forgery and sale of spurious naturalization certificates
and the repeated use of the same certificates passed back and forth
between relatives and friends.
"5. The assisting of immigration, either by local authorities in
Europe or by earlier comers in America.
"6. The stimulating of immigration by transportation companies and
their armies of paid agents and sub-agents in Europe."
[Sidenote: A Plain Necessity]
As a result, Mr. Ogg says, of the widespread operations through these
underground channels there is an abnormal immigration movement so vast
as "to override and all but reduce to a mere joke our whole restrictive
system. That an appalling number of aliens who are on the verge of
dependency, defectiveness, and delinquency do somehow contrive to get
into the country every year is a fact too well known to call for
verification here. Nobody undertakes to deny it." There is plain
necessity, therefore, that some means of redeeming the situation should
be found.
_II. Proposed Legislation_
[Sidenote: Three Recommendations]
The Commissioner-General of Immigration, in his report for 1905, devotes
much space to new or amendatory legislation, which he regards as a
necessity.
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