In re Torres’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “In sustaining the action of the District Court granting Convento’s petition for naturalization, Judge, Bazelon speaking for the court of appeals, said “Easing naturalization requirements for those who have served our country in wartime is a congressional policy of long standing. It is not simply a matter of reward; it is also a recognition that no further demonstration of attachment to this country and its ideal is necessary. Since appellee’s case is within this congressional aim, the statute should not be read restrictively to bar him unless it is expressly commanded. While syntax may be better preserved by insisting that the enlistment between June 25, 1950 and July 1, 1955 be the one which occurs in the United States, the words of the statute do not compel it. And there is no indication in the legislative history that Congress faced the problem of re-enlistments. In the absence of the clearest indication that Congress intended to confer well-merited benefits in arbitrary and niggardly fashion, we must assume it did not”.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Naturalization of Gabriel