§ MAJOR SEELYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the husband of Monita Czeplowski, a woman who was rejected last March by the Grimsby Immigration Board on the ground, amongst Others, that her husband could 1602 not be found, is residing at New Ortiston, Scotland, is anxious to have his wife restored to him, and able to support her; and whether he can undertake that if Monita Czeplowski, while not suffering from any dangerous infectious disease, again attempts to rejoin her husband she shall not be denied admittance under the Aliens Act.
§ MR. GLADSTONEI have no information to the effect of the first part of the Question, and in no case could I give any such undertaking as that which is suggested in the latter part. The admission or rejection of alien immigrants does not rest with me but with the immigration authorities at the ports. I may remind my hon. and gallant friend that the woman was found in March to be suffering from trachoma in an advanced and dangerous stage, and I am unable to agree with the view which he then expressed that aliens suffering from dangerous and contagious diseases ought to be admitted to this country.
§ MAJOR SEELYIf I furnish the right hon. Gentleman with evidence as to the whereabouts of the man and showing that the woman is not suffering from a dangerous infectious disease, will the right hon. Gentleman give an assurance she shall be enabled to join her husband?
§ MR. GLADSTONEThe hon. and gallant Member is, I think, as well acquainted with the Aliens Act as I am, and he must know that the decision rests not with me, but with the Immigration Board.