Speech #770224320

I refer to section 1001 of the Second War Powers Act. being chapter 199. second session. Seventyseventh Congress. Public Law 507. It was the Senate bill S. 2208. which provided. as passed by the House. that a person serving in the armed forces cannot obtain his naturalization unless he can show that he is legally in the United States. There are thousands of aliens in this country today who cannot establish proof that they are legally in the United States. Some ports failed to record the proper name of the alien. In other ports the parents did not give the name of the child. who has now grown to manhood and is being drafted by the Selective Service System into our armed forces.