Fifty per cent of the quota. and that is exactly what we are doing now under the present law. As I said. this bill was the only kind of a bill which I could prevail upon the committee to pass. As far as it goes it will bring some relief to American familes which are now separated by virtue of our harsh immigration laws. But this bill is not going far enough and is certainly not going to help our American families to a very large extent. It certainly will not add one single immigrant to the total of immigration now allowed into the United States and it can hardly be said that Congress has done faything by this bill to relieve existing conditions. This is not the first time that it has become my duty to call the attention of Congress to the fact that separation of families was one of the worst misfortunes that could be imagined. We have so many cases of fathers and mothers separated from their children and husbands separated from their wives. There is only one answer to it and that is our immigration policy which is embodied in our legislation. The family relation is the most sacred known to man. It is the fioundation of the state.
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