Furthermore. you do not make good citizens by jamming citizenship down peoples throats. American citizenship is and has been a voluntary act. and these people want to become citizens. This Congress has refused to give sufficient funds to the Naturalization Service so that it is now understaffed and the foreignborn has to suffer long periods of delay. You have refused to make naturalization a reasonable procedure. To the contrary you have made it most difficult for the foreignborn to become a citizen and now you try to starve him because he is not a citizen. These people are anxious to become citizens. but what happens? Before the average courts of the States and of the United States they are asked questions that even a United States Supreme Court judge cannot answer. There are all kinds of impediments set before them which I have not the time to describe. and there is so much red tape involved that becoming a citizen is today a most difficult process. I make no criticism of the Naturalization Service. It is doing the best it can. Congress will not give it the funds it needs nor has this Congress ever given any thought to make the process reasonable.
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