A Border Dragnet Closes Around Chinese Travelers
Two men captured near Wickersham are ordered deported, while 740 Chinese passengers arriving at Vancouver put officers on alert along the border.
WHATCOM, April 11.—[Special.]—The two Chinese men captured at Wickersham a few days ago rejoined the Chinese prisoners in the county jail today, having been ordered deported by Court Commissioner Lawrence at Sumas. Seven hundred and forty Chinese immigrants arrived at Vancouver today on the Empress of India, and the officers expect to gather some of them in along the border.
“having been ordered deported by Court Commissioner Lawrence at Sumas.”
The 1890s saw Chinese exclusion enforced by raids, deportation and border surveillance in Washington. The same machinery of detention and removal remains central to immigration debates today.
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