Mr. President. in this connection I desire to say that I think it is peculiarly appropriate on the one hundred and fiftysecond anniversary of the adoption of the Bill of Rights to recall that America has been the haven of free institutions and the asylum for the disowned and oppressed of the human race. In view of this noble heritage of our great democracy it would seem incongruous indeed to find that people from India. who have entered the United States and lawfully resided for periods of 15 to 25 or more years. engaging in the free and legitimate pursuit of life and sharing in the blessings as well as difficulties peculiar to this land. are subjected to a legal discrimination that denies them the privilege of naturalization. More than 25 percent of the people from India in the United States have been married to nativeborn American citizens and have raised families. Their wives and children are American citizens by birth. Since these Indian residents have voluntarily given up their former domiciles and cast their lot for better or worse with the land of their.adoption. in the name of human justice and American sense of fair play. it is only just that they be granted the right to become naturalized and saved from discriminating limitations due to the nationalorigin clause.
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