I was then a fellow member of the Banking and Currency Committee and obtained considerable information at that time concerning this troublesome problem and became sympathetic to this cause. The Fellows bill is not as liberal as the Stratton bill. To my mind the Fellows bill is a fair compromise of the situation as between those who would let down the bars of Immigration absolutely and those who would restrict further immigration in the same manner. The immigration quotas remained unfilled during the war years and under the law if not used they lapse. The number permitted to enter under the Fellows bill is much less than the number of persons that would have come here legally during the past 5 years under the present quota if it had not been for wartime conditions. Furthermore. under the Fellows bill no more people come here eventually than under the existing quotas. The bill permits them to come here sooner and eventually all those persons who are admitted are charged off to the existing quota. except the orphans. There is no relaxation of the immigration laws. Undesirables cannot come here as all applicants must meet the same standard our present immigration laws require and must have sponsors who will enter into a binding agreement to guarantee they will not become public charges. Our colleague. the gentleman from Kentucky . a member of the Judiciary Committee. was privileged to visit these displacedpersons camps last summer and assured the members of the committee that the majority of these persons are industrious and skillful. He exhibited to us certain handiwork which they had made under most trying conditions.
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