The Senator has raised a question about the provision under which a person convicted of a crime not involving moral turpitude could be excluded from admission to the United States. There are many. many other such provisions. I do not know how we can. save through the press. bring to the attention of the people the fact that consuls all over the worldor their subordinates. as a matter of factcan refuse visas to prospective immigrants. not on any established ground. but merely because. in their opinion. the applicants would not make good citizens. or that. in their opinion. 20 years from now. perhaps. they may be guilty of doing something which a consul would not approve. Under the proposed law. there is no statutory appeal permitted by which such cases can be heard within the Department of State. If a consul says to an applicant. "I will not give a visa to you." that is the end of it. There is no way of going back of his decision. I and other Senators have received hundreds of letters from relatives or friends of aliens. protesting that their loved ones cannot obtain visas. All we can do about it is to send such letters to the State Department and ask if they will please look into the cases. In not one instance in a hundred have I either received an answer or a change in the ruling.
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