§ MR. FORDE RIDLEY (Bethnal Green, S.W.)To ask the President of the 8 Board of Trade whether he is aware that a number of foreign emigrants from this country have been rejected by the shipping companies in Liverpool, on the ground that they would be classed as undesirables under the United States Immigration Laws; and can he say how many of the persons so rejected remain in this country.
(Answered by Mr. Gerald Balfour.) I am informed by the shipping companies in Liverpool that the number of foreign emigrants rejected by them during 1902 on the ground that they would have been classed as undesirables under the United States Immigration Laws was about twenty-five, and that the whole of these persons were sent back to the Continent at the companies' expense.