THE MICHIGAN DAISY

Thursday, February 13, 1969

NOT 'OFFICIAL' POLICY:

Canada stops

U. S.

deserters

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OTTAWA (CUP-CPS)-Cana- The ruse, which kept Immi-{
dian immigration officials are re- gration Minister Allan MacLach-r
fusing landed immigrant status en's phones busy all day Monday,(
to American armed forces de- clearly showed that border guards
serters despite an Immigration De- were violating two precepts of!
partment policy that deserters and Canadian immigration policy. {
draft evaders are to be treated The student deserters were not
no differently than other immi- treated as normal immigration ap-
grants plicants-only two were permitted
The border discrimination was to undergo the "point system1
disclosed Saturday when five test," now standard practice at
York University (Toronto) stu- the border for potential landed
dents were turned away from se-t
parate border crossings after they immigrants.E
impersonated American Air Force And border officials transmittedt
deserters. I the information that they weret
The way Congress fun
Seed catalogs to salary


WASHINGTON W) - In the
sometimes wondrous ways of Con-
gress, the $12,500 pay raise going
to members this week evolved
from a dispute over postal rates
for seed catalogs and other third-
class mail.
Although the two matters may
seem remote, they became locked
together in. a battle between the
House and Senate in the closing
days of the 1967 congressional
session.
In the end, the House won
agreement for establishment of
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machinery under which congres-
sional pay could be raised every
four years without requiring nem-I
bers to do anything but sit back
and look surprised.
The pay-raise saga developed
this way:
Many members wanted a raise,
particularly the younger ones with
growing families and no autside
sources of income.
But representatives, up for
election every two years, were
skittish about the political con-
sequences of voting directly for
an increase in their own salaries.
The House had been intrigued
for some time by a proposal un-
der which an outside commission
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"deserters" to their American Tm- under immigration law to allow
migration counterparts-a practice them landed immigrant status. g
expressly forbidden by law. Not one of them made it over
The- five planned their sortie border.
carefully for two weeks. i'hey All of this despite a statement
showed up at different border sta- in parliament, July 12, 1967, by
tions bearing photostats of iden- John Monroe, then parliamen-
tification papers of a legitimate tary secretary to the Minister of
deserter now living in Canada, Immigration., who said: "An in-
William John Heintzelman. They dividual's status with regard to 4
had draft cards, certification of1 compulsory military service in his
future employment in Canada, own country has no bearing upon
Canadian letters of reference-in his admissibility to Canada, either
short, all that would ;establish as an immigrant or as a visitor,
that they were deserters and that Nor is he subject to removal from
they had sufficient qualifications Canada because of unfulfilled mii-
_-------- tary obligations in his country of
citizenship."
io sThe pint test, which requres
least 50, in each of the five cases
added to more than 65. Points are
awarded for items like amount of
y ik money, languages spoken, ob
guarantees, recommendations, ed-
ucational background.0
would recommend levels for con- McLachlen said Sunday he took
gressional and other upper- "a dim view of the impersonation
echelon salaries in government. tactic" used by the students, but
Under that approach, the presi- confirmed that his department is
dent would, on the basis of the investigating why nearly all de-
commission's proposals, make sal- serters were turned away at the
ary recommendations to Congress. border, He said his department
They would take effect automa- hopes to make it easier for de- *
tically without a direct vote by serters to get into the country,
members. Congress would retain The five students charged of-
the option of vetoing the salary ficial directives were the reasons
proposals. for their rejection.
In April of 1967, President Lyn- One of the students, Chris Wil-
don B. Johnson sent Congress a son, was asked immediately about
message asking that pay of civil his draft status; when he in-
service employes be raised and formed the official he was a de- 
postal rates be increased. serter, was told there was "no
The House used that egila- way" he could get in and not to
tion as a vehicle for its salary- bother applying.
commission plan. All the others were given sim-
The Senate turned down the ilar run-a-rounds, though two
commission proposal but at the were rejected after hasty confer-
same time, it voted to increase ences between border officials and
rates for thirdclass mail to levels their superiors. . + M
higher than those set in the House When they were rejected, sll
bill. were immediately seized by Amer-
The basis for compronise was ican immigration officials who al-
Iobvious. Senators who partici- ready knew they were deserters.
pated in the Senate-House con- Apparently they had been told by
-ference reported the House dele- the Canadian officials.
gates unyielding on the salary The Immigration Department
commission proposal. . requires the Canadian border to 4
Agreeing to it was the only way inform its American counterpart
they could obtain House suppot of a rejection of immigrant status,
'for what they considered proper but they are not permitted to ex-
levels for thirdclass mail rates, plain the circumstances.
the Senators said. All five had destroyed their
As a result the final bill c n- American documents, before re-
tained the commission maphinery turning to the American side, but
and it was promptly put into oper- the Americans called them by the
ation. The outside commission names on the American 1draft
made its salary recommendations cards and- knew the circumstances
late last year and they were in the for their return. One, Graham
new federal budget submitted in Muir, was refused his right of at-
January. torney by the Americans.
Majority members in both hous- Muir had earlier been told he
es headed off efforts to invoke was rejected because "there's a
the veto. Resolutions to reject the difference between eyaders and
increases never were allowed out deserters. We're under Instructions
of House committees. One got to not to let deserters in."
the Senate floor but was defeated, All were threatened with arrestj
47 to 34. until they were able to substan-
The result is the $12,500 annual tiate their claim to being Cana-
increase in congressional pay, to dian citizens. They were hassled
$42,500 a year, that takes effect for at least a half-hour, an'd
Friday. threatened with action by the*
And the story is a continuing Royal Canadian Mounted Police
one. The commission legislation when they returned to Canada.
provides that the Whole procedure The border crossings involved
starts up again, ,without further were: Windsor, Queenston, Nia-
action by Congress, in 1972. gara Falls, and Buffalo.
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