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Congressman Johnson Favors Admission of Relatives Provided Quota is Not Increased

February 26, 1926
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Jewish Daily Bulletin

The restrictive immigration laws are on the statute books to stay, with no modification that will increase the number of aliens now admitted, Albert Johnson of Tacoma, Washington, chaiman of the Congressional Committee on Immigration, declared in an address before the Patriotic Order Sons of America.

“I am sure that the people of the United States want restrictive immigration,” said the Congressman, who is the author of the immigration laws. “What slight modification may be necessary will not be made at the expense of restrictive immigration.

“A movement is being started to permit the wives and children of alfens already in this country to enter. It is humane to make this modification, but we must be careful. Such people will have to be admitted at the expense of a reduced quota for some other nation.”

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