Chairman. in this bill there are 27 reasons assigned for which any person seeking to enter our ports may be excluded. There is no doubt at all that as to the personsthe insane. the pauper. the criminal. and all the others--who are excluded by operation of those 27 reasons pretty much everybody will agree. But in order to still further restrict. immigration another cause is assigned. and that is the "literacy test" . and I suspect that is the crux of this whole situation. I suspect that public policy is not the end in view. but ra:her to restrict. and I regard the "literacy" test as a poor test of character and the qualities desirable in persons seeking citizenship. Everybody knows that there are thousands of people who come into this country every year without the intention of becoming citizens.
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