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I do not raise that question at all. The facts speak for themselves. In January of this last year I again appealed to the Congress asking that the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization be given the right to investigate the smuggling of aliens and that it be permitted to go into the question of the Americans. socalled. who hold dual nationality. I venture to say. Mi. Speaker. that there are at least a million or more people in this country today who hold certificates of citizenship but are not fit for citizenship and not entitled to citizenship. people who hold dual nationality and are practically agents of foreign governments. people who are in sympathy with foreign dictators and everything they stand for in the way of destruction of our democracy. In one of our courts over 300 certificates of citizenship were issued by certain judges to men who never lived in this country and who never paid taxes in this country. men who still owe allegiance to Hitler. In view of this situation the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization saw fit to ask the Congress to give the committee the right to study these problems. In January of 1939 the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. of which I have the honor to be the chairman. went on record unanimously in favor of a resolution which we directed one of our colleagues the gentleman from Indiana to introduce. This resolution was referred to the powerful Committee on Rules. The resolution would have given the committee the right to go into the question of the hundreds of thousands or millions of socalled citizens who are not true citizens and who do not seek to protect democracy or even defend the Constitution of the United States. It would have given the committee the right to make recommendations with regard to cancelation by the courts of the certificates of citizenship of these socalled citizens. and would also have given the committee the right to do something to stop the smuggling of aliens and the bringing into this country across the Mexican border. by certain interests in this country. of cheap labor in hordes to work for 20 cents a day. We had the hope that it would be possible after these persons came here to send them back to Mexico. The resolution would also have given to the committee the right to study the problem of how better to enforce our immigration law. However. certain movements were undertaken and propaganda was issued to the effect that such an investigation was not wanted. Mr.