The Dilemma of the Stranded Immigrants
Twelve Chinese immigrants abandoned on a rock near Stewart Island highlight the ongoing border crisis.
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Twelve Chinamen were brought here by the Virginia. They were picked up on a rock near Stewart Island after they had been landed by a boat from Victoria. The Chinamen had been on the rock four days without anything to eat. They were tried before the District Court and remanded back to Victoria, but as the authorities there refused further control of foreigners landed on Canadian soil, the United States authorities have a knotty and expensive problem to solve.
“The United States authorities have a knotty and expensive problem to solve.”
This incident of immigrants being shuffled between jurisdictions on tiny islands reflects the long, painful history of Exclusion laws in the Pacific Northwest. It highlights the recurring struggle of human lives caught in the machinery of border and immigration policy.
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