Cases have been called to my attention recently of American women who married aliens. who labored under the impression that their fathers had been naturalized. Those women were born in this country and have continued to live here. The parents of the alien husband came over when the children were of a young age. and yet those women. American born. are deprived of their citizenship under the existing law. When the original bill was passed it was not the intention to take away the citizenship from Americans who married foreigners and continued to reside in this country. May I ask the gentleman from Washington if his committee gave any consideration to excepting women with that status and to allow those women to retain their rights. having been born here. regardless of the fact that they have married foreigners and whose husbands thought they were duly naturalized. and who were laboring under a mistaken belief that their fathers had been naturalized?
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