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As a matter of fact. no needy American citizen abroad can get private employment without a special permit. which is very difficult to procure. Every alien who has entered this country for a great many years has had to give satisfactory assurances that he would not become a public charge. Since 1924 both the State Department and the Labor Department. since the inauguration of our quota system. have stipulated and insisted that in accordance with the law this provision be complied with. Consequently. no alien who has come into this country since 1924 is any proper object of our bounty. because of the fact he had to give assurance he would not become a public charge. Any alien who has been in this country that long or longer is certainly no proper object of our bounty unless he has been sufficiently in sympathy with our ideals and our institutions to have become a citizen of this country.