Mr. Speaker. Senate Joint Resolution 82. which we have just passed. is as follows: Joint resolution to amend subdivision A of section 4 of the Immigration act of 1924 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unitc States of America in Congress assembled. That subdivision A of section 4 of the Immigration act of 1924 be amended so as to read as follows : "(a) An Immigrant who Is the unmarried child under 18 years of age. or the wife. or the husband. of a citizen of the United States who resides therein at the time of the filing of a petition under section 9." I was very much interested to see this resolution go through the House with Very little discussion and no real opposition. One of the first things I did in the Sixtyseventh Congress was to introduce a resolution providing for the admission into the United States. without regard to quota. of the sons and daugiters. husbands and wives. and fathers and mothers of American citizens. The Immigration Committee very kindly gave me a hearing on my bill. but at that time there seemed to be no possibility that such a change in the Immigration laws would be made. The present bill does not take in all children of American citizens and it does not take in the fathers and mothers of American citizens. It is. however. a step in the right direction.
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