Mr. Speaker. in reply to the question of the gentleman. the Department of Labor makes this objection to that: The present practice of the department Is to regard wives as admissible. It Is sug ested that. in view of the very large number of mentally defective cildren encountered in administering the immigration law. the exception here proposed will have very farreaching effectswill result In introducing Into the country strains of mental deficiency. both extensive and serious. In addition to the suggestion they make. the bill says "that nothing in this act shall exclude the wife or.minor children of a citizen of the. United States." Now. if those words were left there. an alien might come here and. afterremaining for five years. file .his. declaration and bring in his son. an anarchist. 20 years 11.months and 29 days old.-. Many of the very worst of that class of people are the younger. ones. Besides. the prostitute -daughters of an.American citizen who had become naturalized. who had never come here. if that language were left there. could come in. and for that reason and for the reason suggested by the Department of Labor. that many of these people come here infected with the very worst kind of contagious diseases. and becfuse they were children of an American citizen. would have to be admitted in violation of all these other wise provisions in the law.
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