These men are now of draft age and the draft boards are taking them into the service irrespective of whether or not they are legally in the country. They are now fighting soldiers. shouldering all the duties and responsibilities of citizens. yet they are aliens and can in no way procure a certificate of citizenship. because we provide in the War Powers Act that they must prove that they are legally in the country. The Committee on Immigration and Naturalization tried to solve this problem. but. unfortunately. the House voted down the resolution. during the debate on which the gentleman from Mississippi made a great fight based on the point that it would open the door to Immigrants. which argument was incorrect and misleading. The purpose of the committee was to clarify the status of hundreds of thousands of aliens who are ready to serve our country today and who are serving our country today but who cannot establish through actual. documentary evidence. that they are legally residents of the United States. I submit that in fairness to our soldiers and in fairness to our great effort to win this war we ought to cut out the red tape .and eliminate from the War Powers Act the words "legally in the country." and permit more freely the enlistment of hundreds of thousands of ablebodied young men who today are ready to sacrifice their lives in defending democracy and their adopted country.
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