He fears that it affords an opportunity for the legal entry of aliens who might manage to evade our laws and remain illegally. The high character of the organization of the Boy Scouts should be sufficient guaranty that his fears are groundless. At present the number of aliens leaving the country. either voluntarily or by deportation. is far greater than the number coming in. The greatly reduced quotas are not filled. so we who are native born will have the opportunity as never before of helping the aliens who are here legally to understand our laws and our government. and to prepare them for intelligent citizenship. Our immigration laws under the last administration were construed to permit most cruel and inhumane separation of families. Alien parents were deported to their native lands. which in many cases were under a new sovereignty. while their nativeborn children remained here to become public charges. Incredible hardships were imposed upon innocent people. and the members of the Immigration and Naturalization Committee in endeavoring to prevent the recurrence of such brutality are in no way changing the existing quotas nor adding to the number of aliens already here. I do not share the fears of the gentleman from Texas that our Government can be undermined by the aliens who are now in the country. even if some of them are here illegally pending the efforts of the Labor Department to have bills passed under which they may be deported.
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