Speaker. I do not agree with the gentleman from Minnesota that we could not grant citizenship to *these people. but I do not believe it would be wise to eneumber this bill with that proposition now. We have a bill before the Committee on Immigration looking to the admission of these very people. not as ordinary immigrants. not as aliens. but just like any other American citizen coming back to this country. If these men were to be discharged or if any alien were to be discharged who had joined our Army on the other side an shhuld possibly remain on the other side for a period of several months and not come back with his uniform on. or as a soldier. he would have to come back as an ordinary alien. and if he had been shot up over there. although a former member of our Army. having volunteered in our Army or having joined these CzechoSlovak and Polish independent legions. he could not come back here. because he would he excluded by the immiigation law. Therefore. in order to meet that very condition. the Department of Labor sent a bill to me as chairman of the committee. the purpose of which was to allow such alien to come back just like an American citizen who had fought in our Army would come back.
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