It may fail there or it may be amended in that body so that it will be unobjectionable from the standpoint of uniting families. but if it passes the Senate and is signed by the President. I will make it my business to introduce on the opening day of the next Congress an amendment which I shall hope to see adopted. That amendment will add at the close of section 4 of the bill the following: In addition to authority to issue visas otherwise provided in this act and in the immigration laws now In force the Secretary of State in his discretion may cause visas to be issued. not to exceed 200 in any one calendar month. to provide for the reuniting of relatives in exceptional cases where great hardship would result If this authority were not exercised. This amendment. or at least its substance. has the approval of such men as Reid Lewis. director of foreign language information service. exCongressman Nathan D. Perlman. representing the American Jewish Congress. and other authorities on immigration who appeared before the congressional committees. It would vest in the Secretary of State a wise discretion which could be relied upon to correct glaring instances of inhumanity in the administration of our immigration laws.
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