Speech #680081173

I am quite sure that If the committee understood the case to which I am about to call your attention. you would adopt this amendment. I feel confident in stating if the committee understood the real situation involved. and which my amendment seeks to solve. there would be no serious objection on the part of the committee to its adoption. I make that statement with some degree of confidence. because the subject matter involved in my amendment was heretofore presented by me to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization during their sittings last year in hearings held by the committee on t special bill which I introduced for the relief of an alien who is at present a resident of my district. The status of that alien and the subject involved in this amendment were quite thoroughly considered by the committee. After a hearing on the subject the committee in its bill. reported in this House in February. 1923. incorporated a provision or section intended to accomplish the very purpose now sought to be accomplished by my present amendment. The situationll whicll I desire to call your attention arises from a case in my district. and It is my information obtained during the hearing of the committee last year that perhaps 40 other cases of a similar character existed in the United States at that time. Since that time. however. there has been some reduction of that number. I am not in possession of the exact number of the reductions. but tlhere would naturally be some less number than that Involved at this time due to the fact that some of these cases have been closed by deportation. The facts of the case to which I now call the attention of the committee. and which will be solved and relieved by the adoption of my proposed amendment. are about these: In 1904 a certain TurkSyrian. N. J. Kalaf by name. came to this country. inmmediately upon his arrival he made application to become a citizen of the United States. and as rapidly as the court under the law could naturalize him he was duly naturalized and became a citizen of the United States. In the meiatime lie sent for members of his family. In 1914. in September of that year.