The persons affected by this provision are those who remain of the approximately 86.000 persons of Asian origin. whom the 1940 census showed to be in this country and who were admitted prior to the passage of the 1924 act. They are here perfectly legally. they will be here as long as they live. They pay taxes. They are good lawabiding members of our communities. but they cannot now be naturalized because of their race. they cannot become American citizens. More than 95 percent of them are Japanese. There was not a case of sabotage among them during the war. although we will have to admit that we suspended the Bill of Rights in our Constitution by uprooting them from their homes and putting them in concentration camps for 31/2 years.
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