The United States of America is the best place on earth to live. This bill will make it a better place in which to live. So if an aliens only sin is as to his own entry here. we did not wish to Judge him too harshly. and if he has been here 7 years and established a good character and is otherwise qualified. we give the Attorney General discretionary power to save him from deportation. Section 402 takes the case of one persecuted for religious reasons or for any other reason. dissent from the Nazi philosophy or what not. whose only offense has been that he has overstayed his visitors permit period. and who is of good moral character and attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States. and so proves. the Attorney General may. in his discretion. grant a change of his status from that of nonimmigrant to that of immigrant. What is the law now? What do they do now? They simply step across the border into .Canada or into Mexico. or run down to Cuba for the week end. and then apply fbr a permit to return to the United States as a regular quota immigrant. and under existing law such applications must be granted. We have tried to make this a sensible. commonsense bill. For the first time. this bill would give to the authorities of our Government the right to do something about an existing problem. charging everyone whose status may be thus changed to the quota of his country.
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