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largely on what happens with respect to the West Indies. If Jamaica
is included in a quota area subject to the provisions of the Box bill,
rather than remaining under the British quota, that would open up
another area of English-speaking people who would share in the
50,000. It is not clear in my mind, Judge Box, to——
Mr. Box. I think it is as clear as it ought to be in the language.
The effort was to draw that clause in my bill in the exact terms of the
present law so that it would not cover any country covered by the
present law.
Mr. HusBanp. By the present quota. I see.
Mr. GissoN. The Supreme Court of the United States recently
passed upon the right of Canadians to live in Canada and work in
the United States.
Mr. Hussanp. Well, not exactly.
Mr. GissonN. Does that decision have any effect on these bills?
Mr. HusBanp. No. That decision merely said in effect, that an
alien residing in Canada who works regularly in the United States
must comply with the requirements of the immigration law before
he can be permitted to continue that practice.
Mr. Grsson. They must now be an immigrant, where they were
not before?
Mr. Huseanp. They must now be considered as immigrants,
where before they were rather loosely regarded as temporary visitors
for business.
Mr. GiesonN. Then, under this act he would be considered as an
immigrant? .
Mr. Hussanp. Yes; it would not change the present status.
There is nothing in either of these bills that would change the existing
practice under General Order 86, which the Supreme Court sustained.
Mr. CasLe. How many such workers are there, natives of Canada,
who work in the United States?
Mr. Huseanp. I don’t know about natives of Canada. The
record includes residents of Canada who are aliens and who have been
admitted to the United States as immigrants, but reside in Canada
and habitually work in the United States. There are about 8,500
such cases on the Canadian border, 6,500 of them being at Detroit-Windsor,
 and about 4,000 on the Mexican border. |
Mr. Gisson. They would come within the quota of the bill,
though?
Mr. Hussanp. Oh, yes. Any new entries would come within the
quota established in this bill.
Mr. Care. What would be the method of preference if you want
to charge these up? For instance, against the Great Britain and Ireand
 quota who would come first? How would that be allocated?
Mr. Hussanp., Well, that would not change the procedure under
she present law, because a native of Great Britain, let us say, resident
in Canada, would be subject to the British quota. Congressman
Johnson’s bill would create a quota for Canada, and that quota would
ve composed entirely of persons born in Canada. We would get two
classes from Canada: We would get natives of Canada under the
Canadian quota;'we would continue to get British, German, Scandinavian,
 and other immigrants from Canada under the quotas allotted
to the countries of their birth. .
Mr. CasrLeE. How about the naturalized citizens of Canada?