My friend from Oregon and my friend from Ohio and my friend who sits right in the frontare you ready as Christian gentlemen to tell the Secretary of Labor now to tear these fathers from their Americanborn children and send the father back to Russia or to another part of the world? Are you that kind of gentlemen? Are you prepared by your vote here today to tell the Secretary of Labor that this man. simply because he did not pay $8 years ago. shall be deported notwithstanding he will thereby leave his wife and children dependent for support upon the communityyour community and my community? What do the restrictionists on this committee want? I am trying to reach an agreement with them. They want me to introduce 2.600 individual billsone for every immigrant. That is an impossible procedure to follow. for the reason that you would have to stay here for 5 years to carry through the program. So. I appeal to your sense of justice and I appeal to their sense of justice. I said. "Let us stay the deportation of these cases until January." I am willing to come to some amicable adjustment between the group that believes in extraordinary restriction and the group that believes in justice to mankind. That is all there is to this. The Secretary of Labor said that if she could obtain a resolution of this kind from this House or the Senate before the close of this session oi this Congress she would hold the deportation up until Janu. ary. and if you do not do something she will deport them. Now. Mr.
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