Chairman and gentlemen of the Committee. I think if you will read the first and perhaps the second page of this report you will get a more comprehensive understanding of this somewhat technical bill. This bill endeavors to iron the kinks out of our immigration laws. at it were. It does not lower immigration. barriers.. It changes them to the extent that it removes race as a bar to immigration and treats all people equally within the standards of the immigration laws. The first provision of the act and the one that I am most interested in removes race as a bar to naturalization. a thing which. it seems to me. we should have done long ago. In other words. people who are legally resident in this country. who have a right to reside here. who are going to live out their natural lives as bona fide legal residents of this country. should have a right to become naturalized if they can qualify under our naturalization laws notwithstanding their color. In other words. Japanese. Chinese. Polynesians. and so forth who have been living here under the old law may become naturalized citizens if this law passes and if they can meet character and intelligence standards. During the war we observed the heroism of many of these people. The most decorated outfit in our Army in World War II was the Four Hundred and Fortysecond Regimental Combat Team. made up entirely of JapaneseAmericans.
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