Congressman Sabath, Speaking at Chicago Hias Conference, Assails Present Immigration Law; Pledges Fi

Congressman A. J. Sabath, for twenty-two years a member of the Immigration Committee of the House of Representatives, speaking at the Chicago conference of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, held at the Masonic Temple today, bitterly assailed the present harsh, inhuman, discriminatory immigration law which permits over 150,000 Mexicans, Canadians, Central and South Americans to enter annually and prohibits the entry of the wives and children of old residents and declarants and even of the husbands and aged parents of United States citizens.

He characterized the giving to the husbands and parents of American citizens a preferential status within the quota as mockery—as in all of these cases the quota of country of birth is so small that it will take years before they can be reached.

Congressman Sabath strongly assailed the National Origins scheme as discriminatory and as having been forced upon the statute books by insidious, professional propagandists and a professional restrictionist lobby.

Though in favor of deporting every alien criminal, he denounced the 1929 Deportation Bill that makes possible the deportation of heads of families and thousands of persons for minor transgressions and trivial technicalities. The Congressman further pointed out that first we place every conceivable restriction on naturalization, increase the cost thereof tremendously, making it almost impossible for people so desiring to become citizens, and then because they are not citizens, we subject them to deportation on the slightest provocation.

Notwithstanding all of these harsh laws which have been enacted during the last few years, the professional restrictionists, parading the so-called “patriotic orders” under the leadership of the fours horsemen, Trevor, Patten, Kennicott and Wills, all paid lobbyists and propagandists, are endeavoring to