A bill demanding that no alien be excluded or deported from the United States, if a refugee for political, racial or religious reasons from the country of his origin, introduced into Congress this week by Representative Marcantonio, was referred today to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.
The bill specifies that no alien be deported from America if he is a fugitive from his native country because of his acial origin or because of his political or religious beliefs.
BARS DEPORTATION
Similarly, the bill would bar deportation of aliens who might be subjected in their native land to persecution or social and economic discrimination on account of their racial origin.
The bill provides that Section 4 of the Immigration Act of 1924, referring to the admissibility of immigrants, shall be amended by adding thereto a new subsection to read as follows:
“An immigrant who is admissible to the United States as an alien who is a refugee for political, racial, or religious reasons from the country of his origin; or is a fugitive from that country because of his political or religious beliefs or because of his racial origin; or might be subjected in that country to criminal prosecution or summary or arbitrary treatment, or to social and economic discrimination, on account of his political or religious beliefs, or because of his racial origin.”
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