Great Northern Train Workers Arrested for Smuggling
Two railway employees were intercepted by immigration officers in Blaine after hiding Chinese migrants in a locomotive tool box.
Bellingham.—Peter McGregor, engineer, and George Nelson, fireman, of a Great Northern passenger train, are being detained at Blaine by United States immigration officers on suspicion of having attempted to smuggle two Chinese into this country in violation of the immigration laws. The Chinese were taken from a locked tool box on the engine at Blaine.
“The Chinese were taken from a locked tool box on the engine at Blaine.”
This arrest occurred at a time when the Chinese Exclusion Act was being strictly enforced through local surveillance, a precursor to the modern geopolitical tensions regarding migration routes through the Pacific Northwest corridor.
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