I do not object to the United States requiring its own citizens to have passports in order to go abroad. I do think we are usurping parts of the immigration laws. and that it will make all kinds of difficulties. to require passports for aliens coming to the United States at any such fee. I had the case Saturday of a stowaway who had escaped from a prison in Germany. who came to the United States. and was ordered sent back by the State Department for the want of a passport. He gets no right of appeal. That happens under the law that we extended for about a year as a war necessity. That young fellow claims that he is a political refugee seeking asylum in the United States. but for the want of a passport. which lie could not get. he must go back. That is just a sample of the trouble we are bound to get into. I do not think we will get anywhere with the passage of this legislation.
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