I am speaking only as an humble and obscure member of the committee. but it has been my opinion that the bill does not infringe upon that free communication. We think we have left the door wide open. We have given the Secretary of the Treasury discretion so that while we are accommodating the free intercommunication of the citizens of the two countries we establish safeguards against the admission of aliens who are debarred by the provisions of our immigration laws. We do not wish that there should be an avoidance of our immigration laws by way of Canada. We have observed. as has been stated by the junior Senator from Massachusetts . that many of those who have been excluded at the port of New York have subsequently entered the United States by way of Canada. The Senator agrees with me that that is wrong. that our laws must be enforced. that there must be no evasion of them.
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