Mr. Chairman. I started to say that the adoption of this amendment would simply make us ridiculous. An alien is a person who is not native born. who has not acquired the rights of citizenship. Now. to say that somebody is not an alien who is an alien is a simple absurdity. and if that provision was put in there the effect of it would be that a man might hold his papers for years. go back to the old country. contract any kind of a disease. or become insane. and then -r upon returning have the same rights and privileges that a nativeborn citizen or a naturalized citizen would have.
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