MINORITY VIEWS ON H. R. 1127

The report on this bill constitutes another departure from our general policy. Heretofore we have granted visitors permanent status where they had married or where there were some unusually extenuating circumstances which precluded for all practical purposes their return to their homeland.

To recognize one's right to remain here who comes in under a visitor's visa is to open wide another loophole in our immigration laws. It would be an open invitation to many persons to apply for and secure visitors' visas, when in fact they had no intention of returning under the terms of such visa.

In the instant case, the applicant presents a petition from friends and neighbors in the community in which she resides to the effect that she is a useful person and we submit that such a peititon could be secured by visitors in 99 cases out of 100.

This bill practically eliminates all policy in such matters and would result in a flood of such bills, which flood would duly increase with time.

ED GOSSETT, M. C.

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DANIEL KIM

MAY 31, 1949.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed

Mr. FEIGHAN, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the

following

REPORT

[To accompany H. R. 1466]

The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 1466) for the relief of Daniel Kim, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.

The amendment is as follows:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof

the following:

That in the administration of the Immigration and Naturalization laws, the provisions of Section 13 (c) of the Immigration Act of 1924, as amended, which exclude from admission into the United States persons who are ineligible to citizenship, shall not hereafter apply to Daniel Kim, a native of Korea, Korean race, national of Japan (the minor adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. David C. Kim, citizens of the United States, the father being an honorably discharged veteran of World War II) who last arrived in the United States at San Francisco, CaliSeptember 1, 1948, and he shall be deemed to have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence as of the date of his last entry, and any departure bond outstanding in his case shall be canceled.

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PURPOSE OF THE BILL

The purpose of this bill, as amended, is to waive the racial exclusion in the United States to a 12-year-old adopted child of American clauses of existing immigration laws so as to grant permanent residence

citizens.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The pertinent facts in this case are set forth in a letter dated May 5, 1949. from the acting assistant to the Attorney General to the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, which letter reads as follows:

DANIEL KIM

MAY 31, 1949.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed

Mr. FEIGHAN, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the

following

REPORT

[To accompany H. R. 1466]

The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 1466) for the relief of Daniel Kim, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.

The amendment is as follows:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:

That in the administration of the Immigration and Naturalization laws, the provisions of Section 13 (c) of the Immigration Act of 1924, as amended, which exclude from admission into the United States persons who are ineligible to citizenship, shall not hereafter apply to Daniel Kim, a native of Korea, Korean race, national of Japan (the minor adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. David C. Kim, citizens of the United States, the father being an honorably discharged veteran of World War II) who last arrived in the United States at San Francisco, California, on September 1, 1948, and he shall be deemed to have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence as of the date of his last entry, and any departure bond outstanding in his case shall be canceled.

PURPOSE OF THE BILL

The purpose of this bill, as amended, is to waive the racial exclusion clauses of existing immigration laws so as to grant permanent residence in the United States to a 12-year-old adopted child of American citizens.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The pertinent facts in this case are set forth in a letter dated May 5, 1949, from the acting assistant to the Attorney General to the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, which letter reads as follows: