Three thousand eight hundred and ninetysix Indians are now in the United States. They have registered under the Alien Registration Act of 1941. Most of them came in before 1924. the date of the present Immigration Act. They are already assimilated here. they are a part and parcel of our life. Last Sunday I met a delegation of Indians who came up from the Imperial Valley to Los Angeles. where I met them. They were businessmen. they were farmers. they were professional men. they were all upstanding gentlemen. cultured. refined. educated. softspoken. thoroughly Americanized. Those men would be permitted to become naturalized under my bill. Over 200in fact. 215of their sons served in our armed forces. Many were born here. and they are. therefore. citizens because they were born here. and thus could vote.
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