Fisn]. I am heartily in favor of the amendment which that gentleman has just offered. There is certainly in America today no body of citizens to which immigrants could come with greater assurance that their footsteps would be guided along the path of practical patriotism and worthy American citizenship than to those exservice men who wore the uniform of the Army and Navy of our country in the recent great World War. One of the objections which has been raised. and quite properly so. to the coming of aliens to these shores at this particular time is that they will not become real American citizens.. The. exservice men who went out. as my colleague has stated. to the call of arms went out with the assurance. voiced not only in print but spoken from the platforilis throughout this Nation. that upon their return nothing would be too good for them. I do not believe. however. that the service men should have. nor that they ask for. anything that is not reasonable. The request which has been made and which is embodied in this amendment does not increase the number of immigrants that will come to our shores by one single individual. But it does give preferential treatment to the relatives of these exservice men of foreign birth. who offered so freely their lives. and in so doing gave such sterling proof of their love for their adopted country in its hour of crisis.
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Aliens will not become real American citizens.