Speech #680204914

Now as to the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York . it provides that in case the President should desire. he would have the right to reduce or wipe out all vis6 fees upon all aliens coming to the United States. not only as .to people coming to visit the United States. but abolish them altogether in the case of any and all classes of aliens desiring to come to the United States. That power belongs to Congress. and it strikes me as wrong and unsound to give to the President the power to.say to an alien. "You can come to the United States and not pay a dime for the vis6ing of your passport." The purpose of this bill is to give to the President the right to abolish these fees if he wants to as to those who want to come here to visit the United States. whereas the gentlemans amendment provides that if the President wants to he can abolish them as to all aliens coming to the United States. I claim that if there is anybody in this world. who ought to pay for our Immigration Service it Is those who are benefited thereby. and not the taxpayers of the United States. Tlhe amendment is bad. and the bill as a whole ought not to pass.