It is impossible for many aliens who are lawfully here to prove the time and place of their arrival. This section is intended to give relief from that condition. That is the only subject to which attention is called. but inadvertently perhaps the section has another effect of giving jurisdiction over registry of aliens not only to the Commissioner General of Immigration. who now has it. but also to the Commissioner of Naturalization. It gives a divided jurisdiction and it may well be that an alien who was refused registry by the Commissioner General of Immigration would then be able to go to the Commissioner of Naturalization and get from him the registry which had been denied him by the immigration officer. I do not believe that that divided jurisdiction should be created without some investigation by the Congress. It may be it will prove to be wise. but nobody has given considera-
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