Mr. President. since this bill is to amend one of the sections of the Immigration Act of 1917. I wish. to say in the very beginning that the bill in no way lessens or removes any of the bars to immigration. It grows out of the fact that the act which governs travel by ship was enacted in 1917. and rather inflexibly provided for documentation in connection with persons arriving In and leaving the United States. Air travel has been regulated by subsequent acts. and the Attorney General has recommended the amendment of the law. The purpose of the bill is to put air travel and ship travel on exactly the same basis and it has no other purpose.
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