The four Starnes bills for drastic immigration restrictions and control of aliens were opposed yesterday by the State and labor Departments.
At a hearing of the House Immigration Committee, John Farr Simmons, chief of the Visa Division of the State Department, testified that the bills were unnecessary to limit immigration.
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