We do not say that he can not get a job there. The master of a vessel knows. however. that certain races are excluded under the immigration policies of the United States. He knows that if he brings such excluded person into the United States. the latter. under the decisions of courts. may prevail in habeas proceedings. brought to liberate him from enforced control over his person by the master of the vessel upon which he came to the United States. It may be true that after securing his release. he will be taken into custody by an immigration official and deported. The measure before us has the support of organized labor and the seamans union of the United States.. This is their bill. and they have given it serious consideration. In weighing the problems and factors involved in the provisions of this bill. those proposing it believed that under the thirteenth amendment. which forbids involuntary servitude. persons severally excluded from the United States can not legally be held on board any vessel entering our ports. The master of a vessel under the New Zealand flag or the English flag who ships a person racially excluded from the United States knows. if he brings him here. that the latter may not enter the United States. he knows that that man may not be held on board against his will and that habeas corpus proceedings may be instituted for his liberation. He knows that his vessel may be penalized and compelled to pay a considerable sum to meet the costs of detention and deportation. What shall we do? We modify the existing law and say ta the Japanese and the Chinese and to those who are racially excluded. "You may come. because we do not want to create embargoes against any country. but you must come on a ship of your own nation. you must come under the flag of the country to which you owe allegiance.
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