Among the 2.862 persons are aliens who were legally admitted to the United States as nonimmigrants. Some were students or visitors who later were entitled to a nonquota preferential immigrant status. Among such cases is that of a Russian girl who fled to Manchuria where she met an American woman who agreed to finance her medical studies in the United States. Before completing her studies her patron was unable to continue. or withdrew. her support. and the girl thereupon married an American farmer. The husband and wife and their child. born in the United States. are happily married. Deportation proceedings have been instituted against the woman because she had not maintained her student status. The Commissioner of Immigration reports that: * * * the whelming majority of the stayed cases have no charge against them other than that of having entered or remained in the country illegally. * * * Many who have crossed our land borders without proper inspection did not know the requirements of our immigration laws. This is especially true of children brought here to join relatives or friends. The Commissioner. in his letter to the chairman of the Committee on Immigration of the Senate. under date of January 27. 1936. gives a number of illustrations of cases where aliens are subject to deportation. principally upon technical grounds. I ask permission without reading to have excerpts from the Commissioners letter inserted in the RECORD at this point.
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