Speaker. this resolution is in the forni necessary to make it a privileged resolution.. It is not unfriendly to the Department of Labor. It must not he presumed that the Labor Department is withholding the information which is requested for the information of the Meinbers of the House for the information of the committee which reports the resolution. the Committee on Naturalization and Immigration. It will be noticed that the resolution called for the numbers of persons hrrested inder certain clauses of the immigration act of February 5. 1917. ani under the provisions of the act of October 16. 1918. which was a broadening of the clanses of the firstnamed immigration act. Alany Members of the House. have been asked by their constituents as to why numerous arrests have been made of aliens under these provisions of the law. and why. after these aliens have been started toward actual deportation. they have not been deported. Now. it has become the beliefof your committee that there is some diflicuilty. not in the fault of this particular department. but pterhiaps l7hroughT the frilure of certain hlaws to apply. or perhaps the laws not permitting sufficient coordination between the Department of Justice and this department. What is the difficulty? Are the clauses of the immigration acts mentionedr in the resolution not strong enough? Are we in the law asking the Department of Labor to do muore than it has the machinery to do or: todo that ht has not tle funds with which to do.? We are not asking in this resolutiot for answers to thes questions which I have propounded. but we are asking for certain facts to assist the committee in coming to conclusions.
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