Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-08

I'VE are trying to locate every case
in the United States wherein an alien
has wife, husband, son, daughter
father. mother or other relatives
stranded overseas. Thus we can over
whelm Congress with human interest
stories in such tremendous volume,
giving such exact details, that we Will
break its will to hold the immigra-
ton restriction act. These stories,
with the probabilities that great
masses of foreign-born voters back
their sentiments. will help us destroy
this unjust, discriminating, upright
eous law" The signature to this
propaganda was in obvious foreign
chirography.
The above quotation comes from a
circular letter sent out from New York
to scores of social workers and to
CongreSsmen who are supporting
measures to amend the law so as to
admit members of families of aliens al
ready in the United States.
An officer of the immigration Study
Commission comments:
Before us lies a letter from Sena-
tor explaining his vote on the
Wadsworth bill permitting the admis-
sion of 35 900 relatives of aliens who
are here and who have declared inten-
ton to become citizens. The Senator
writes: Anything to restore broken
families will receive my sympathetic
VOTE but the comment is: He fails to
consider that the American end of the
broken families could return to those
overseas. We are profoundly con-
WINGED that there is a cunningly de-
vised plan to amend to death the John
son act within the next few years"
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Yesterday the House immigration
committee decided upon the details of
a bill to relieve the pressure for the
admission of the families of aliens al
ready here, without increasing the
quotas of the nations. The committee
bill will be reported out some time this
week, in lieu of the Wadsworth bill
passed by the Senate but rejected by
the committee of the House. The re-
lief of alien families would be even
greater than what the Wadsworth bill
provided, but 1t would all come with
out adding to the quotas now allowed
to the respective nations. 1t is al
legged that many of the stanchest sup
porters of the Wadsworth bill, which
added 5000 year to the quota i'm
migration by admitting the wives and
children TO a total of $4,000. as non
quota immigrants, now refuse to sup
port the House measure, because it
does not add to our total immigration.
This fact of their opposition is cited
as proof Of insincerity in their pre-
tense of interest in the sob stories
of broken families, and it is claimed
to prove the surmise of the Immigra-
ton Study Commission that their sup
port was merely part of plan to get
an entering wedge into the present
law-admitting $4,000 on this broken
family basis--which is estimated by
Government officials to be really only
one-sixth of the relatives clamoring to
get in, and then. later, pointing to the
injustice of having still barred the
other flve-sixths. While our quota
now is limited to about
164 1000. this total admitted nets, after
deducting all who return to Europe,
in excess Of $4,000 year.
** So X
Representative Jenkins of Ohio in
troduced a bill some days ago pro-
viding for admissions of the relatives.
including unmarried children up to
the age of 81. as preferential immi-
grants within the quota. His bill has
been embodied in the committee bill
now receiving the approval of the
House committee over all other meas
ures.
In this bill. section (a). subdivi.
sion tc) of section of the immigra-
ton act of 1924, is amended as fol-
lows:
"(c) An immigrant who was born
in territory which at the time of the
for the issuance of the
visa is under the 1uris-
diction of the United States, or in the
Dominion OF Canada, Newfoundland,
the Republic of Mexico, the Republic
of Cuba, the Republic OF Haiti, the
Dominican Republic or an indie
pendent country of Central or South
and his wife and his UNI
children under IS (21?) years
of age. If accompanying or following
to join him. AL these will come in |
outside of the quotas.
The important new phrase above |
Is In the first line. That will readmit |
native American women who had |
lost citizenship by marrying alien |
husbands. At present, a native Amer |
lean woman married to a foreigner |
takes her Ahusbands nationality and /
loses har nerican rights