I am perfectly aware that our existing statutes have written into them a safeguard that only persons born in the Western Hemisphere are eligible for entry as nonquota immigrants. but I need hardly say that the enfzrcement of the existing law is not of such a character as to give any assurance that the placeofbirth provision will be adequate to protect us. As a matter of fact. there are often very grave difficulties in establishing the birthplace of an alien seeking to enter our shores. I think my esteemed colleague. the Senator from Pennsylvania . will assure the Senate that I am in no way exaggerating by saying that aliens in transit through Canada have succeeded in entering the United States by obtaining duplicate birth certificates of Canadian citizens by the simple practice of paying a small fee for a copy.
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