Speech #650414114

Chairman. for years we have permitted the scum and every grade of criminals in Europe to find an asylum here with those who came here because they were sick and tired of autocracy and its handicaps to the toiling. I am inclined to believe that the gentleman from New York does not understand the meaning and force of the proposed amendment of the gentleman from Pennsylvania . The money appropriated by Congress for the Bureau of Naturalization is not used to deport objectionable aliens. for the jurisdiction of deportation rests under our laws with the Commissioner of Immigration. It was not the Commissioner of Naturalization who deported the bunch of I. W. W.s who denounced this country and its Constitution in such language as not to permit its repetition here. I know some.of these immigration officers do make mistakes at times. but I do not think they make a mistake when they take by the nape of the neck every 1. W. W. and Bolshevik and boot him across the sea from where he came. Mr: Chairman. what the Bureau of Naturalization attempts to do is to build a fire under the "melting pot in America" and teach these aliens the basic principles so that they might