Mr. President. I introduce for appropriate reference a private immigration bill for the relief of Richard Pang. Richard Pang was born in 1926 at Camp John Hay. a U.S. establishment at Baguio City in the Philippines. He came Into this world a citizen of the Philippines. by reason of his birth at Camp Jay. a citizen of the Republic of China. by reason of the Chinese nationality of his parents. and a national of the United States. by reason of the Commonwealth status of the Philippines at the time. He has spent his entire life in the Philippines and the United States and has lived for the last 8 years in Ithaca. N.Y. Now he is about to be deported to Formosa. an island on which he has never spent 1 day of his life and with which he has absolutely no ties. If Richard Pang were a criminal. perhaps- his banishment from our shores would be understandable. If he had shown himself at any time in his life to be unworthy of our concern. perhaps we would have to stand aside and permit the Immigration Service to force his exile to Formosa. But Richard Pangs only fault is that he wants to be an American. Our immigration laws. which are devoid of compassion and riddled with inequities. deny him this wish. The Immigration Service. is powerless to exercise any discretion no matter how unjust be the literal application of the law to these circumstances. But the Senate does not suffer any such impediment and I believe it will grant relief in this case when all the facts have been considered. Richard Pang has lived his entire life under the American flag. first in the Philippines and for almost a decade in New York.
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