Senator Reynolds of North Carolina announced today that he was drafting a bill to suspend all immigration for a period of ten years “or until every unemployed American is back at work.”
Meanwhile, it was revealed that the last official opinion rendered by Homer S. Cummings as Attorney General placed a new construction on consular procedure in the granting of visas to the United States. Under his ruling, a refugee imprisoned by Germany for concealing the amount of his funds was declared to be not guilty of a crime involving moral turpitude, which would have barred him from entering the United States.
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