The greater guilt rests on the agitator and instigator of the crime. I know that it is foreign to this bill. but I want. to drop this thought as we go along. A question was asked by the gentleman from Pennsylvania if we had the power to enact legislation that would deport tie alien that had been naturalized. It strikes meand I wat the House and the commiittee to think of it. 1 suggested it to the Committee oil the .:Ndiciarythat we might enact into law a provision that in case of al alien who shroll obtain naturalization and afterwards is guilty of certain offenses. such as are defined in this proposed act. for histance. the law might say that his act of procuring naturalization was a fraud. that he never in good faith accepted citizenship. and therefore from the ileginning the act of naturalization was an act of fraud. and we might then cancel his certificate of naturalization and deport tihe alien. I have in imind the case of the man recently denied a seat in this House on the ground that lie had committed all act amounting almost to treason. and who has been chosen by his district to collie here againthat the Secretary of Labor might find under a proper law that the obligation imposed by his naturalization was never tccepted by him in good faith. .that when he accepted citizenship in this country lie did so with a mental reservation that alioilted to a fraud on the court. nil therefore his naturalization vas never valid. that it was a fraud from the beginning. and void. and lie would be subject to deportation. There is no doubt in my mind this could be done. There is no inalienable rigit possessed by a foreigner to enter this country. reside here. "ild be naturalized. It is a mere privilege this country extends to him. It can do so onwhatever terms and conditions it deemis necessary. or it can deny that privilege al together.
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