Mr. Speaker. apropos the matter of bringing child refugees into this country. the Members of the House may be interested to know that the Secretary of State has contrived an arrangement with the Western Union Telegraph Co. which I learned in connection with a case of my own only yesterday. whereby a citizen of this country who seeks to bring over a child from a foreign country. whether a relative or otherwise. can go to a Western Union office in any town and there file a telegram which is addressed to the consul in the foreign country in which the child resides. requesting the granting of a visa to a child and then offering to show that they are able and willing to take care of such child or children. and I assume. put up the statutory bond which will be required. That is the expeditious way. I understand. in which the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the State Department are now seeking to handle the individual refugee problem. Aside from that there is the problem of mass refugees in which it is proposed to bring them over by the shipload. I am informed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service that they are of the opinion that they can best be sent to Canada and then the large group decentralized and the children sent to this country in small groups or as individuals. But alluding for a moment to the proposition of the red tape with which such things seemingly are encrusted. if a citizen can bring a cousin or a nephew. or a child from a foreign country by merely going to the Western Union telegraph office and there filing a notarized telegram. that certainly is cutting straight through red tape.
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