Mr. Speaker. the Legislature of California three years ago approved a joint resolution memorializing and petitioning Congress to restrict the immigration of Filipinos into the United States. Several bills were presented during the Seventieth. Seventyfirst. and Seventysecond Congresses by Representatives from California with a view to bringing about the results desired by the California Legislature. Some of these bills have been the subject of extensive hearings by the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. but none was enacted into law. because it seemed to be the judgment of Congress not to exclude or restrict Filipinos coming to the United States while the islands remain under the American flag. The official representatives of the Filipino people have contended that their people were entitled to the rights and privileges guaranteed by the Constitution pending the grant of their national independence which American Presidents and the Congress have promised. The independence issue has of late become a pressing problem demanding early solution.
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