In his acceptance of the honor and responsibility of this office. Mr. Farrell said: Congress makes the immigration laws and my job will be to execute them. But Congress expects us to get into the spirit of the law as well as the letter. Immigration policies will be firmly based on the premise that aliens have a right to fair treatment. Commissioner Farrell declared: We have to remember that these Immigrants are Gods creatures. too. After all. my own grandparents came from Ireland and my wifes parents came from Austria. If I have dealt with this nomination beyond the customary length I wish it first of all to be an encouragement to long and faithful workers in the vineyard of Government service. Then I wish it to have a humane impact on the peoples of the world we would have as friends. I want them to know that in the Immigration Service. where our relations are so individual. that the humblest and the lowliest may be assured of equity and humanity in the interpretation and enforcement of the laws that govern our welcome to the ambitious to our shoresa welcome upon which our progress and prosperity has been founded.
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