The House Immigration Committee has scheduled a hearing for May 7 on a bill introduced by Rep. A. Leonard Allen (Dem., La.) which is apparently designed to prevent refugees interned in Canada from immigrating to the United States. The resolution, which was introduced on March 27, reads:
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that no alien who has been imprisoned or otherwise incarcerated in the United States or in a foreign country shall be eligible to apply for admission into the United States until after the lapse of a period of five years from his or her release from confinement and until such alien shall have made an affirmative showing that he or she was not confined for the commission of a crime involving moral turpitude and that he or she has been a person of good moral character since such confinement.”
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