Speech #710174470

Since when has it become a crime for children to take care of their aged parents? Are we not better off to have these parents in the country instead of sending money to them out of the country for their support and maintenance in their old age? Anyone studying the situation will agree with the majority of the committee that no harm can be done by the exemption of these aged parents for quota restrictidn limitations. and our Commissioner General of Immigration heartily recognizes this policy. Again referring to the question of the number of people affected by this legislation. I have a letter from the State Department and that letter clearly shows that there are only 8.000 applications and not 15.000. as charged in the report. and this letter can be seen at any time. I am not exaggerating the situation at all in the slightest degree. We start with the supposition that for the present fiscal year. let us assume. there are 15.000 added to our population in the United States. but in the natural course of things these immigrants will die within five or ten years. and new admissions can not be had. I ask the gentleman from New York . the chairman of the Committee on Rules. and the Republican Party. and the members of the Democratic Party. as Americans. as legislators. to grant us this piece of humanitarian legislation. We do not ask for any appropriation. we do not ask for millions. we ask you to do a kindly and a humanitarian thing. to unite families and to fulfill the pledge made by both the Democratic and Republican Parties to the American people in their last conventions.