I will say to the gentleman that we think not. This right of free ingress for the suites of foreign ministers. ambassadors. and so forth. probably exists under international law anyway. For a long time they have been exempt from the operation of our immigration laws. and no question has been raised. It is presumable that no ambassador or minister would introduce into the United States any member of his suite suffering from a contagious disease. Probably international law presupposes that foreign nations shall be privileged to send whom they choose to represent them here. Now. one word more as to this question of excluding under any circumstances the wife and minor children of a citizen of the United. States.. The provision- prohibiting such exclusion was inserted. if I am not mistakenj without much discussion. when the immigration blr was up in the Senate a year or two ago. I believe that the wife of a citizen of the United States. even if he is a naturalized citizen. ought to have exactly the. same rights as your wife and my wife. but she will not always have them.. and. the children of a naturalized. citizen will not always have the same- rights as our children. unless we retain in this bill this provision exempting wives and children of American citizens. from. the operation of this law. The. gentleman. of course. knows that children born prior to the. naturalization of their parents have been held by the courts to be aliens.
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