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11 Immigration B. Bull. 1 (1958)

handle is hein.immigration/immigbbu0011 and id is 1 raw text is: IMMIGRATION BAR BULLETIN Published by THE ASSOCIATION OF IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY LAWYERS ...-Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses o'earning to breathe free . . . I lilt my lamp beside the golden door. January-June. 1958 Nos. 1-2 MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT \VILLIAM B. RIOTHISCHILD I was very pleased that my first official function as Presi- dent of our Association was to open our annual symposium held at. and co-sponsored by. the New York 1U niversity School of Law on January 25. 1958, and to welcome our distinguished panel, guests, members and friends. At the dinner which followed. I was proud to present to our retir- ing president, Arthur S. Schapira, a plaque extolling his contributions to our Association and to the field of Immigra- tion Law. At its February meeting, our Board of Governors granted a charter to the New Jersey Chapter of our Association. I w elcome our new chapter to our growing organization and thank Samuel W. Strauss of Camden. New Jersey, for his efforts in its organization, and congratulate 1. Arthur Levy of Newark. New Jersey. its nexly elected Chairman. In May, I met with Z. 13. Jackson. President of the Immi- gration Bar Association of San Francisco. and a group of leading members of that organization, and discussed our mutual interests. I invited this distinguished group of at- torneys to affiliate with us as a chapter of our Association. and it is my hope that in the near future we will have a San Francisco Chapter. \lrs. Rothschild and I wcre the guests of the Los Angeles Chapter at its May dinner. We were happy to meet with its members, their wives and guests. On that occasion I presented membership certificates to all of its members. The following day, a closed session meeting was held; we ex- changed views regarding immigration problems as they affected practitioners in the West Coast area and the prob- lems of the Association on a national basis. I am heartily grateful to Frank Chuman. Chairman. and to the members of the Los Angeles Chapter. for the hearty welcome extended to Mlrs. Rothschild and me. an(i for making our visit to Los Angeles a memorable one. M\lany problems have occupied our Association since the beginning of my term of office. In March. we were informed that the Immigration Service was summarily transporting aliens. prior to hearing, from the district of the courts where- in thex resided or were apprehended, to McAllen, Texas. where they were being detained without first affording them the opportunity of communicating with family, friends, rela- tives, consul or counsel. Our Board acted promptly and the Association forwarded a strong protest to the Service, and, after consultations and discussions, the Immigration Service announced the discontinuance of this policy. The Service however, refused to concede that it did not have the power and right to act in this manner. The Association was pre- pared to judicially test the legality of this procedure when it was informed that this policy had been discontinued. II the Federal Register of April 9, 1958 there appeared a notice of proposed rule-making, excluding landed crewmen from the benefits of the pre-examination process. Our Asso- ciation promptly sent a carefully prepared memorandum of objections to the Commissioner and alerted the voluntary agencies to the dangers of the proposed rule. I am pleased that the provision excluding landed crewmen from the benefits of pre-examination did not appear in the regulations as promulgated. When H.R. 11874 was referred to the Senate, it provided for a record of lawful admission for permanent residence of certain aliens who entered the United States prior to June 28. 1940, as of the date of the approval of the applica- tion. III a communication addressed to Senator James 0. Eastland, Chairman of the Immigration and Naturalization Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, our Association called to his attention that the proposed bill, remedial in nature, was intended to apply to, and benefit, aliens who entered the V nited States after July 1, 1924 and prior to June 28, 1940, and who are technically deportable persons. That, as to the others, who arrived prior to July 1. 1924, the Bill imposed a hardship, i.e., that they would now have to wait five years for naturalization or, in the case of an alien married and living with United States citizen spouse, three years from the date of record of lawful ad- mission before being eligible to file for naturalization, where- as existing law gave them a retroactive date of lawful entry. The bill was amended by the Senate and passed by Congress, and provides that if entry occurred prior to July 1, 1924 the record of arrival be created as of the date of such entry. It is Public Law 85-616. On May 22, 1958 our Association communicated with Hon. Francis E. Walter, Chairman, House Immigration Sub- committee. voicing strong protest against H.R. 12487, an attempt to restrict the judicial review of deportation and (Continued on page 2) Xol. X I

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