Chairman. I move to strike out the last word. The conditions described by the gentleman from New York emphasizes the need of having responsible American citizens at these offices where there is a tremendous amount of immigration work. In the first place. we have no control or check on the employees of the consulate for misconduct if they are not citizens of the United States. All we can do is to discharge them. The trouble is that there have been so many thousands of cases in each one of these small offices that it is impossible for the American consul or his deputy to give these thousands of cases their personal attention. The result is that you have aliensnationals of the foreign country. where the American consulate is locatedpassing upon these important questions of immigration. The only contact that the prospective alien has is with an official of the consulate.
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