During the calendar year 1932. 2.070 Filipinos returned to the Philippines from the continental United States at their expense. With expenses paid. it is probable that the number of applicants would greatly exceed this number. Your committee roughly estimates that perhaps 20.000 to 30.000 of these Filipinos would apply for the benefits of this resolution before the date fixed as the last date upon which application may be made and accepted by the officers of the Immigration Service. that is. prior to December 1. 1933. Such a movement on the part of these unemployed Filipinos would be distinctly beneficial to our own citizens who also are without regular income and who are seeking employment. at the same time. it would get these Filipinos speedily among their own peoples. where adjustments probably would be more possible than if they remained here. While the hearings developed that a number of communities in the United States are now. and have been for sometime. overburdened with calls for solution of the vexing problem of caring for these people. who are neither citizens nor entirely aliens. still testimony submitted clearly established that there existed a definite desire of many Filipinos to go back to their homeland provided a way is provided to finance the journey.
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