(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
The House Immigration Committee today definitely decided to accept and report favorably Congressman Dickstein’s proposals to legalize and permit the permanent stay of all aliens who entered America unlawfully prior to July 1, 1924 and also those aliens who arrived between July 1, 1924 and July 1, 1925, provided the government does not deport the latter prior to July 1, 1927. The Bill also provides for the naturalization without producing a certificate of arrival of those aliens who entered unlawfully prior to July 1, 1924. It was hitherto impossible for unlawful entering aliens to obtain citizenship.
Those aliens who entered unlawfully between July 1, 1923 and July 1, 1924 may become naturalized after July 1, 1927, if the government has not previously deported them, according to the bill.
The committee also accepted Dickstein’s proposal to take away the Czaristic powers originally granted by the deportation bill to immigration inspectors and instead to grant aliens a hearing before a special board and make deportation subject to appeal to and approval by the Secretary of Labor. The alien is also to have a right to subpoena witnesses.
The committee will continue its work on the Deportation Bill at another meeting on Saturday.
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