I prefer to finish my statement. then I will yield if Ihave time. If they are separated from their families and sent abroad. their families in many instances are thrown upon relief. All this resolution does is to ask that these proceedings be stayed until January. when the Commissioner proposes to report these cases to our Committee on Immigration in order that some specific legislation may be provided to take care of these hardship cases. They are not cases of moral turpitude where the people involved have violated the law. Many of them violated the immigration law only from a technical standpoint. I believe that in all such cases as these justice should be done. The way to do it is to permit these cases to be brought specifically to the Committee on Immigration of this House. that they may consider them separately upon their merits. Many of them have applied for citizenship. but when they made their application they found these technicalities existed that could not be corrected even by the records at the ports of. entry. If these cases should be held over into the future the Commissioner reports that they would be charged against the quota of the country from which they came. Why separate them from their families and send them back only to allow other aliens to come in? Why separate them from their families. send them abroad. and assume responsibility of caring for their families. when all that will be done will be to throw the quota open to other immigrants who may not have the character of these people who will be deportedaliens who will be a greater experiment in immigration than these .who have been here 10 years?
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