Then. may I suggest that after all is it not up to this Government. and should we not have the first say as to who is to enter first or who is to enter at all? Could we notand I am asking this of the chairman of the Committee on Immigration because I know he wants to be fair and I know he has made a study of the problem and knows just what the condition iscould we not between now and the time we adjourn pass a joint resolution to last until January 1. 1928. when we come back here. and take 90 per cent of the onehalf .that we now permit to enter as quota immigrants and let the Secretary of Labor issue preferential visas to wives and children of declarants? This would not increase by a single number the total number of immigrants who may enter under the law and this would give some relief. in fact. it would not only give relief. it would unite a percentage of the families that are now divided. and it would not increase the number who would come here and subsequently ask to send for their families. This. gentlemen. is a human problem. and when you have a case where the man is here and is making good. and. has been here perhaps three or four years. and it will take two or three more years before he can complete his naturalization. and the family perhaps is stranded in some port i n Europe. or where you have the entire family here and an aged mother on the other side. gentlemen. you do not realize what that means. I know you want to be fair. I know you are kind.
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