Mr. Chairman. I am not a member of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. My attention was first called to these cases on the hearing before the Rules Committee. I have always voted for every restrictionist measure on immigration that has been presented in Congress. and I think I should be considered a restrictionist. but these particular cases are hardship cases. and the hearing disclosed that they are heads of families2.600 of them. Some error has been made in listing their names at the port of entry. Sometimes a mistake has been in paying their head tax. They have lived 5. 6. 8. 10 years in this country. Many of them have married American women. and children have been born to these families. the children being American citizens. I cannot see how the majesty of the law would be violated by permitting the Commissioner of Immigration to consider these hardship cases and at a later date present these facts to the House Committee on Immigration. as this resolution proposes.
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