While Chairman Johnson of the House Immigration Committee was declaring the necessity for a cessation of the illegal entry of aliens as means of relieving the unemployment situation, Representative Cable of Ohio introduced a bill calling for an annual compulsory registration of all aliens, in order to facilitate the ascertaining of names and addresses of illegally resident aliens and thus make it easier to deport them.
Representative Cable’s bill also seeks to simply the process of naturalization by making eligible an alien who had complied with the requirements of his registration bill for five consecutive years without any other declaration of intention. Aliens failing to register annually would be ineligible for citizenship until after meeting the regulations for another three years.
The labor market is being glutted by the illegal influx of aliens, declared Representative Johnson, and to back up his statement, he offered clippings from Western papers that substantiated him.
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