I am sure the gentleman is very familiar with the fact. but I do not know whether he has accented It enoughin the last session of Congress this House passed a bill to change the reference of these cases. the bill providing that a board shall be set up in the Department of Labor which shall consist of 3 members. and this board shall have the right to go into all these cases. sorting out the cases which have some merit in them. The board may then recommend certain cases favorably to the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. that committee will then bring in here a clean bill. The 40 or 50 cases which are up for consideration today were knocked off the calendar twice in recent sessions. Some of these cases have been pending 5 or 6 years. There may be 1 case out of 50 which has merit. but I am informed by a member of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization that practically every one of these bills represents a case of fraud of some kind. Why should we pass 50 or 60 of these bills today when. in the Senate. there is pending a bill providing for the setting up of the board to which I have referred? When that is done. everybody ought to be satisfied. We ought to support the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York. I am not in favor of working any hardship on anybody. There is not much danger of deporting any of them. They have not been deported. There is a lot of sob stuff about that. Do not be misled.
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Generalizing that almost every case represents fraud.