His wife died. He took the youngest of these children. a little girl about 2 years of age. back to old Mexico. This was shortly prior to the passage of the immigration law of 1924. He kept her there just long enough to overstay the 1924 act under which she could not return to the United States without a visa. He then took the child to El Paso and sent her back to the town where the rest of his children were still living. in my district in Colorado. So it will be seen that she reentered without a visa. At that time she was not more than 4 or 5 years old. About 3 years ago when this young girl was a pupil in high school in a fine American town in my district. after she had gotten to be 15 years of age. she was seized by the immigration authorities and ordered deported from the United States. and at the very time the bill to relieve these hardship cases came up here 3 years ago. I had been down. under the demands of the leading citizens of that town. the school superintendent. the mayor. the editors of the papers. the leading businessmen. almost on my knees in the Immigra. tion Bureau begging for this little girls life. for that is what it amounted to. I think I did something that some other Members did not do.
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