There is a distinction between the wife of a naturalized alien who married him prior tohis naturalization and the wife of a naturalized alien who married him since his naturalization. If the wife married him prior to his naturalization and he comes out here and becomes naturalized. then it is a -question whether he may send for his wife that he has left behind pending his naturalization and bring her in here notwithstanding that she ma not be admissible under the immigration law. CoUrt decisions vary. but the department regards such wives as admissible. Wives who marry naturalized citizens are. of course. admissible. and continue so under the proposed law unless they are of dissolute character. Now. if the gentleman would have it otherwise he would find himself faced by this situation: That a man might come here into the United States and after a residence of five years become naturalized and then send for his prostitute wife or prostitute minor daughter and bring them into the United States. I am sure that the gentleman from Ohio would not advocate anything like that.
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