Mr. President. on Monday the Committee on the Judiciary unanimously approved a bill to extend the law under which special nonquota immigrant visas are granted to adopted alien orphans. The bill could have been acted upon yesterday. I do not believe that a single Senator would have raised his voice in objection. Our failure to act means that there now is no law for the relief of these children. since the present law expired at midnight. The full meaning of our inaction has been vividly portrayed to me in letters I have received from Americans all over the world. A captain in the Air Force. stationed in Japan. has appealed to us "to open our homes and hearts to these children. who ask only to be born again equally with others of their generation." A lady from Delaware has asked: "Must these children be left overseas to starve and in some cases even to die?" Her own answer is: "We pass through this life only once.
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