If we possess this power of .removal how can it be in anywise considered that we run afoul of the treaty when we give the alien an opportunity of his own choice to stay with us? That is all we propose to do. We have the power and the moral right to remove them. but we say to them. " If you do not wish to be deported but prefer as a matter of choice to stay in the United States and become one of us in this war. you may exercise that choice." The question of whether it is a hard choice. Is not relevant or important. It may be a harsh action toward these aliens to remove them. when they .would so much prefer to stay safely in this country far from .wars alarms. while our boys are in France. but it could not be argued that the power of deportation is lacking. merely because its exercise would press hardly upon the persons deported.
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