Congressman Samuel Dickstein of New York introduced three immigration bills at the opening session of Congress. One of the bills provides for the admission of parents, husbands and children up to twenty-one of American citizens; a second to admit the wives and minor children up to eighteen of declarants who arrived in America prior to July 1, 1924, and the other bill to admit all the refugee immigrants who secured visas prior to the adoption of the present law but whose admission was made impossible thereby.
Congressman Dickstein estimated that the number of these refugees is about five thousand.
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