Mr. Chairman. all this amendment does is to give legal recognition or genuine status to the Board of Immigration Appeals. It is now functioning not by special authorization of law but by administrative regulation. Its status is tenuous. despite its efficacy and merit. This Board was established some years ago and has rendered a splendid service. I do not think there is anyone in this House who would want to nullify in the slightest the operations of the Board of Immigration Appeals. That being so. recognize it as a legal functioning body. Put muscle and flesh upon its presently bony structure. My amendment says where there is an exclusion order. where an alien seeks to enter. say. at Ellis Island. and the officer In charge says the alien Is not admissible. the alien shall b6 told he has the right to appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals and then he shall have the right to appeal. On the other hand. if the individual officer in charge admits the alien. the Government would .have the right to appeal against the order of admission and say that the alien should not be admitted and should be deported. The Government would have right of appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals. This works both ways. We had this very famous Ellen Knauff case where the wife of a GI. a native of Czechoslovakia. sought to come into this country. The immigration entry officer in charge said she was not admissible. After many. many months of this woman being incarcerated on Ellis Island. complaints were registered with the House Committee on the Judiciary. There were many complaints.
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