Chairman. this proposed legislation is not supposed to take the place of the criminal laws of any State. Whether murder is committed by an alien or a citizen. it is murder amId nothing less. It is proposed by this bill to overcome the difference of opinion which exists between the Department of Justice and the Department of Labor as to what persons can be deported under the present law. My own opinion is and has been that under the present law -you. can deport from this. country every person who is opposed to our form of government. and under its provisions 240 creatures are being prepared to leave America within the next 24 hours--to be gotten away from here for all time. I hope. It is a remarkable thing that since this congressional committee was authorized to proceed over 400 men have been taken Into custody. that from May 1. 1917. up to November 1. 1919. 697 have been arrested and only 60 deported. There were 82 cases pending at that time. Those held at Ellis Island and the balance of them brought from all oyer America. after being released on small bail or otherwise. have been dumped on the city of New York. Now. there is no reasonable doubt but that the men and women who are supplying the money for this kind of propaganda in America are native born. and many of them are women whq appear to be suffering from ennui. They turn to assist these people without perhaps.fully realizing that they are mainly responsible for arousing them against our form of government and our Constitution and what we believe and stand for. I hope and I expect that the Judiciary Committee within the course of two or three weeks will bring in such legislation here as will reach the nativeborn or naturalized citizen. We will thus reach every: scoundrel under this proposed law. I can go to work and refer for hours to the way the present law broke down.
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Aliens are creatures who are opposed to our form of government.