Mr. Chairman. this particular section virtually eliminates the present discretion of the Attorney General to readmit otherwise excludable aliens returning to their homes in the United States. The purpose of my amendment is to restore the provisions of the existing law which give the Attorney General the discretion to readmit aliens returning to their homes in this country in cases where the grounds for exclusion would not have been grounds for deportation if the alien had never left the country. It is my conviction that there are sound and valid reasons for the retention of the particular provision embodied in our present law. In the first place. no sound arguments have been advanced for the elimination of the existing flexibility in our law on this point. which makes possible the exercise of favorable discretion in all deserving cases.
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