I introduced a bill to that effect and I hope we will ultimately come to that. but there is a serious question with respect to the fishing vessels and these other vessels. There are a number of people who are law abiding and yet are not citizens. I refer to the men in the steam schooners on the Pacific coast who have been here before 1930. There are also some men up along the Massachusetts coast similarly situated. They have not so complied with the law that they can now become naturalized. but they have been here 25 or 30 years and have raised children. We are permitting them to show that. They are good. lawabiding residents. and it would be an injustice to them to cut them out.
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