Under section 212 (d) (3). the machinery is set up whereby the Attorney General of the United States. after a finding by the Secretary of State that the admission of an otherwise inadmissible alien is in the public interest. may authorize the temporary admission of such excludable alien. In the case of this young man. the Attorney General has. on the Secretary of States recommendation exercised his discretionary power and the boy has been admitted. temporarily. for 60 days. In further compliance with the Immigration and Nationality Act. to be more specific. with section 212 (d) (6). the Attorney General made a detailed report to the Congress stating facts that prompted him to exercise the discretionary power that we vested in him. This report. submitted by the Attorney General. is printed in the report accompanying the bill under consideration so that every Member of the House can now see how this legal machinery operates. So it was possible to admit an inadmissible alien if there were strong reasons for such action. I wanted to make that clear for the benefit of those who may be occasionally misled by the propagandists. All we are doing here today is to waive permanently the impediment which would prevent the beneficiary of this legislation from moving in and out of this country even after we grant him permanent residence. We are also refraining from making him pay the customary visa fee and from deducting one number from the immigration quota for Poland. We are doing that because we do not believe that the boy should pay the fee and that some other Pole be deprived of the quota number because this man made a successful flight to freedom. I believe that this young man has earned that privilege.
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