We cannot in this legislation provide regulations with reference to the admission of these children. If you start in with one regulation. you will insert another regulation. This is a matter controlled by the immigration laws. and under the immigration laws all these matters are safeguarded. The amendment which the committee accepted provides that they shall be admitted under the immigration laws. which is a sufficient guaranty that the laws will be followed in the admission of these children and that they will not become public charges. It would be unwise to undertake to provide by legislation the rules and regulations under which they will be admitted when we have expressly said by the Jenkins amendment that the immigration laws shall apply. We may come into conflict with the immigration laws by adopting some such provision. when the immigration laws already controL
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