Speech #710213939

Here is the situation: When the immigration act of 1924 was passed it excluded the nationals of certain countries from coming into the United States because of ineligibility to citizenship. Among those were the wives of American citizens of Chinese extraction. Many of these were on board ships bound for the United States. Every equity ought to let them come in. and the Labor Department and State Department did let them land under bond. Most of them are still here under bond. They should be admitted regularly. It was one of those things which the coininittee could not think of at the time.