In one moment. Gentlemen will remembei I opposed in the previous session of this Congress"anexteision of the passport act with an amendment which gave the State Department officials the power to override and act above the immigration laws. I opposed that. and .ou remember we overturned the conference report. But this amendment does not upset or supersede the Immigration laws. Our State Department officials in other countries have only the power now to refuse to vis6 upon knowledge and Information that the person applying for that visC is dangerous politically. harmful to the Integrity and inistitutions of the United States. Our consular agents can not refuge applications for viss to persons for even apparent defects that would be certain to cause them to fail to get into the United States afterarriving at our gates. I have opposed enlargement of State Departmentatthority because I do not want to see a State Department passport regulation superimposed upon the immigration laws. This amendment. as I say. does not do that. but it extends the law already adopted. Now I yield to the gehtleman froni Michigan.
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