Speech #640072569

I have no objection to the statistics of the commissioner. but in respect to these alien criminals I am opposed to the amendment of the gentleman from Illinois and always have been. A thing that I have never understood is the tenderness of this House toward aliens who commit crimes. It seems to me that a man who colles here mid enjoys the privilege of being here and repays our kindness by violating our laws. by committing an act involving moral turpitude. should at the expiration of his sentence be deported. Tillis amendiient proposes that after a man has been convicted twice lie shall be deported. In other words. as the gentlemman from Alabama said with a great deal of gravity. they found in the prisons of New York a great many men wluo had been convicted and who had served out their sentence and then had been let out and committed other crimes and been convicted again. and because the men had been convicted twice lie thought that they should be deported. Because the man had been convicted twice he thought flint man should be deported. Now. why should he not be deported after having been con)victed once of a crime so grave as a felony? This is no new attitude on my part. because seven or eight years ago I introduced a bill which was reported to this House. The gentleman from Illinois at that time made qrgilnents similar to those made by the gentleman from Alabania today.