Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annual Report of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Washington, D. C: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1955
To prevent illegal entries via the crew man route, intelligence concerning desertion-prone or stowaway-carrying vessels Was collected and disseminated; mobile search teams of investigators and patrolmen covered the waterfront areas and searched vessels for stowaways. Largely because of the intensified pro gram to control alien crewmen, deporta tions and voluntary departures of crewmen reached new highs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.