President. upon receiving a list from Mr. Antonio Costa of the 19 Portuguese aliens residing in Rhode Island who were victimized in this alleged citizenship fraud. I communicated with the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization. Raymond F. Farrell. While I was awaiting a reply from the Immigration and Naturalization Service there was an incident in which Mr. Antonio Sousa. one of those citizens of Portugal. was picked up at his Bristol home on April 13 by Immigration agents and transferred to the Charles Street Jail in Boston where he was being held for deportation on April 18. After my offlee drew to the attention of Mr. Farrell the unfair way in which it appeared Mr. Sousa and his fellow countrymen had been victimized. the Commissioner ordered a release of Mr. Sousa from the Charles Street Jail and stayed his deportation order until May 1. It has been pointed out to me that almost all of these immigrants paid large fees to their attorney and in many cases went into substantial debt in order to raise sufficient funds to pay these fees. At this point I would like to ask unanimous consent to insert into the RECORD an article from the Providence Journal of April 16 concerning a stay of deportation of Mr. Antonio Sousa.
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