A decision to start a new fight for the liberalization of the immigration law in the United States was adopted at the last meeting of the Executive Board of the Independent Order B’rith Abraham, one of the largest Jewish fraternities in the United States.
The resolution as adopted urges the executive committee of the order to take initiative for the purpose of organizing other Jewish and non-Jewish societies who favor more liberal immigration laws to start action in this respect. Adolph Stern, grand master of the order, and Judge Usher of Warcester Mass have prepared data which will to submitted to President Coolidge and to the members of Congress.
The amendments proposed by the order are the following: That wives and children of men who took out their first papers before the new immigration law came into force shall be admitted; that the refugees stranded in European ports who hold American visas shall be admitted.
Disapproval is expressed in the resolution with regard to the proposed bill for registration of aliens resident in the United States.
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