The Fugitive Missionary
A Chinese Episcopal missionary is arrested in Chicago on federal charges linked to immigration fraud.
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Rev. Thomas Sing, who represents himself as an Episcopal missionary among Chinese in New York, is an inmate of the county jail tonight. He was indicted by a Federal grand jury at Tacoma for complicity in Chinese immigration frauds in violation of the provisions of the Geary Law. Under the indictment, he gave bond, but Sing was not forthcoming when wanted, so his bondsmen had the arm of the law stretched out to Chicago, where he was arrested. He will have a hearing before Commissioner Boyne, who will probably send the case to a higher court, where one of the Federal judges will be asked to give an order for Sing's removal West.
“Sing was not forthcoming when wanted, so his bondsmen had the arm of the law stretched out to Chicago.”
This arrest occurred at the height of the Geary Act era, which institutionalized the systemic surveillance and harassment of Chinese residents in the Pacific Northwest. Today, the case reflects the long, fraught history of federal border policy and the targeting of vulnerable communities under the guise of legal enforcement.
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