Moreover. the changes which they have already suggested will never. in my opinion. be approved by the Congress. since they have determined that hereafter no minor child born abroad may have American nationality transmitted to it unless both its parents are American citizens. Will American men submit to such dictation and meekly surrender their right to transmit their nationality to their children if they have married an alien wife? Furthermore. indefinite postponement of this act of simple justicethat of equalization of our laws as they now stand. leaving further changes in the laws themselves until the commission now studying them has presented its report in some future yearwould throw the question of equal nationality into what would be bound to be a bitter fight on new nationality and naturalization lawsa situation women have sought to avoid. Women did not make the laws now in force. They do not say they are perfect laws. They did not propose the minor changes suggested in the present bill. they were made by the Committee on Immigration. All that women are asking is that our laws. as they stand today. as they are being daily enforced. shall be completely equalized at once without further delay. This is a just request. one that the Congress intended to grant in the original Cable Act of 1922.
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