What is the effect of this provision? It simply says this: We have a quota of 153.000 for all of the countries. on a quota basis. In September 1930 President Hoover issued an Executive order in which he called the attention of the consuls to a provision in the immigration laws permitting them to reject applicants who were likely to become public charges. Ever since 1930. by administrative action. the consuls have excluded people from the United States. with the exception of a few. That discretion is almost unlimited. as many Members who have had experience with this character of cases know. By administrative action the Department of State estimates that 993.000 aliens who would otherwise have been admitted to the United States since 1931 have been excluded from the United States on the ground that they would likely prove to be hardship cases. But the effect of this hardship provision is simply to say this: Here is a man. already here. he has got a wife and he has children. If he is deported. he will go back to Ireland or Germany. or whatever his country is. and then some new immigrant who has no ties in the United States will come In his place. because under the terms of this bill every immigrant who is permitted to remain under this limited discretion is charged to the quota of his particular country. So that there is no increase in immigration. It is simply a question of choice between those who are here and who have family ties and those who have never entered the United States and who seek entrance for the first time. So that it seems to me in making that choice. in the interest of humanity and for the sake of settling this eternal controversy that exists with reference to hardship cases. this compromise proposal should be accepted.
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