Our laws provide against the abandonment of the wife by the husband. against the abandonment of the children by their father. against the) failure on the part of the man to support those whom he has. sworn to support. Yet. if this bill is passed. we bring about the very things which ordinarily we forbid. Think you that laws are just. that laws are righteous and fair which would so severely punish a man by imprisonment and subsequent deportation because he has stolen. perhaps. something of small value. the while we allow to go unpunished men who are guilty of stealing millions of the savings of the people. thereby causing unspeakable suffering and hardship. I do not mean that where an alien commits an illegal act the fact that he is an alien should condone or mitigate such illegal act. I believe that all aliens to whom we extend the advantages of civic liberty should conform with the legal as well as moral obligations which we as citizens owe our country.
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