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C. MY DEAR SENATOR REYNOLDS: The president general has referred to this committee your request for infqrmation regarding our objections to the KerrCoolidge bill. The expressed purposes. to deport criminals not now deportable and to provide leniency for certain hardship cases. have a strong appeal. We. however. are convinced that the passage of this bill would put a premium on illegal entry into the United States to the disadvantage of the lawabiding alien awaiting his turn on the quota of his country. that it would substitute rule by political appointees for law and thereby further break down respect for law-. We want a law that persons know is going to be enforced. Hardship cases involving pure technicalities should be brought by the Bureau of Immigration to the Congress of the United States for special legislation. We object to section 3 in its entirety because of its provision for discretionary power in the hands of three appointees to set aside the law of the land. It is time for persons to know that the law is going to be enforced in whatever field it pertains. That phase of this bill which is called a strengthening of the law by permitting the deportation of persons not now deportable is also discretionary and so is not a strengthener at all. In its present form this bills only promise for the future is confusion. wire pulling. and further disrespect for law. Why should public officials be subjected to this performance? Lets have a law that is law. It would appear that this bill might be amended so as to remove its discretionary phase. make provision for changing the status of certain nonquota aliens while extending the present law to include certain aliens not now deportable. The National Society. Daughters of the American Revolution has for a period of years endorsed legislation to restrict quotas to 10 percent of those provided by the present law (only temporarily held to this figure by Executive order for the period of the depression). to provide extension of restriction to the countries of the Western Hemisphere and to provide registration of aliens.