That is correct. The evidence before the committee showed that after the decision of the district court becameknown to seamen who came to this country and they found that they could not be deported. desertions increased 500 or 600 percent. The evidence further disclosed that many of these men were undertaking to marry American women and to stay in this country permanently. and were undertaking to become citizens of this country in order to avoid being sent back to the country of their origin. Not only was that violative of the spirit and intent of our own immigration laws and our regulations relating to deportation but It was unfair to the countries with which we were allied to have them denied the Services of their men and their nationals in this time when each and every one of them is fighting for its national existence.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that seamen are deserting and trying to stay in the country to avoid service to their home countries.