Certain of the immigration laws would have to be complied with. of course. But the conferees provide here that the vis6 of a passport of an alien. under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of State. may be refused if the applicant should be dangerous to the public safety or obviously be liable to exclusion if he should present himself at a port of the United States. In the present law we have a provision that a nman who is refused at the port of the United States has the right of appeal to the appeal board. Here we let a consular officer say that some man in Ireland or some other part of the world shall not even start to the United States for some reason that one agent thinks may. not make him admissible. A consular officer might charge that he was a mendicant. or did not have enough money. or charge that lie might in any one of a dozen ways transgress our immigration laws. I favor a great restriction of immigration. If it is the desire to put up the passport prices in order to restrict immigration. I am so much in favor of restriction that I would make the price $50 or even $100. But I think the whole proposal is in the wrong place. and considered in the wrong way.
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