Speech #670195687

I find here two Polish names. I can understand why Harry Gostinska enlisted and fought and died for this country. but I can not understand why gentlemen will stand up in this House and deny to this woman. this mother of an American hero. an asylum here. The case I have cited is of two of these 2.443 immigrants who face deportation unless this resolution is passed. I could recite the heartrending stories of a number of the others. for their eases have been called to my attention by their relatives. and I have aided in bringing their appeals before the department whenever the extenuating circumstances warranted it. Each of these cases is gripping in its humaninterest story and tells of suffetings and hardships almost beyond belief. This resolution affects 2.443 immigrants. very few of whom have a place to go if we were to deport them. I have stressed the case of the mother and sister of an enlisted foreignborn soldier. who gave his life for his adopted country. and which country now challenges the right of his mother and sister to enter that land of adoption. because. unfortunately for them antd for all the others who have no exsoldier relatives here. a certain stipulated number of personswe call it a quotapreceded them here by possibly a number of weeks or days. The 3 per cent immigration restriction act of last year made no exception and gave no preference to the blood relatives of our foreignborn soldiers who served this country in the late World War. and among these 2.443 immigrants are many parents. brothers. and sisters and fianc~s of foreignborn Anmerican soldiers. It is too late now for us to discuss the merits or demerits of that act. for it is the law. but we can at least remedy some of its defects. and I believe no quota restriction should prevent the father. mother. sister or brother. or finc6 of any honorably discharged American soldier from coming to our shores.