(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
A ## to amend the immigration law so that the wives and children under twenty-one years of admitted aliens be exempt from the application of the quota principle was introduced in the House yesterday by Representative Celler of New York. Another bill introduced by him yesterday would amend the law, waiving the quota test in the case of American-born women who had lost their citizenship by marriage to foreigner prior to the passage of the Cable 2ct.
“It is unfair to the poor immigrant who comes here with every intention of becoming a citizen that he should be deprived of being reunited with his wife and children,” Mr. Cellar said “Under the present act only the wives and minor children of naturalized citizens are made quota exempt.
“The second bill would correct 2 long standing injustice to American born women. There is no reason why an American-born woman should be barred from entry by reason of any quota laws and technical interpretation relating to her citizenship by reason of her marriage.”
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