Mr. Chairman. this is an amendment to section 212 (a). subdivision 25. with respect to the literacy of aliens seeking admission to our country. The purpose of this amendment is to restore the provisions of existing law which grant an exemption from literacy tests to the victims of foreign religious persecutions and to close relatives of American citizens or resident aliens. This section. as contained in the bill before us. would deprive the victims of religious persecution and relatives of American citizens of the exemptions from literacy requirements that they had enjoyed under the act of 1917. The gentleman from Pennsylvania explained this proposed amendment a few minutes ago in his remarks in which he said that maybe in 1917 there were many illiterate people who sought and who needed that protection. that recently of some 300.000 DPs that came to America. not one was illiterate.
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