Vivencio Alicante
Name: Vivencio Alicante
Alias: Al Cante
Hometown: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthplace: Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
Referee: Record
Pro Boxer: Record
According to the Honolulu, Hawaii, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1900-1959 database on Ancestry.com, one Vibincio Alicante (Al Alicante), a 23-year-old native of the Philippines and a "Boxer," sailed aboard the S.S. President Hoover from Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands on May 20, 1936 and arrived in Manila, Philippine Islands on June 6, 1936. Alicante was a "U.S. Govt. Deport."
Due to the Tydings-McDuffie Act being was passed by Congress in 1934, a process was established in which the Philippines, an American colony at the time, was to become an independent country after a ten-year transition period. Also under act, the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines was written, the Commonwealth of the Philippines was established and all Filipinos, including those who were living in the United States at the time, were reclassified as aliens with the immigration by Filipinos to the U.S. being much more restricted. Before the act was enacted, Filipinos were regarded as American nationals, not as American citizens, and were able to migrate to the U.S. in a relatively free manner despite being ineligible to become American citizens. But people of Filipino descent who were born in the United States were U.S. citizens even before the act.
After the Tydings-McDuffie Act came into being, the Filipino Repatriation Act enacted in 1935. The repatriation act provided free one-way transportation for Filipino adults from the United States to the Philippines. This may have been a reason why one Vibincio Alicante was a "U.S. Govt. Deport." But less than 2,200 Filipinos out of a total of about 45,000 living on the mainland of the United States were eventually repatriated, resulting in the repatriation act to be regarded as a failure. The Filipino Repatriation Act was declared to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1940.