As usual, when the Port Commissioner recommended admission the Commissioner-General agreed. Frank Larned, the Acting Commissioner-General signed a routine memorandum transmitting the Bodner case record for review by the Secretary of Labor. He too recommended overturning the BSI decision and admitting the Bodner family.

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The Bodners' file contains only a copy of the telegram sent from the Secretary of Labor to Ellis Island ordering admission of the Bodner family. The Labor Secretary's office also prepared a document, in this case probably just one page, rendering the decision and giving the reasons therefor. That document went to Ellis Island, where it was later destroyed. Most surviving files do contain a copy of the final decision.

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