Speech #660181980

President. unless the committee are satisfied with this item. I think it ought to be disallowed. The Senator from Wyoming made a statement with regard to the enforcement of the law which provides for the deportation of certain aliens. Senators are familiar with the action of the Government in causing the arrest of a large number of aliens who were subject to deportation. from the United States. I rise merely for the purpose of stating that I have observed in the press recently that out of the large number arrested for deportation many of them have been. discharged or released on bail. We have heard a great deal about raids made upon Bolsheviki and anarchists and others subject to deportation from the United States. Several hundred were deported to Russia some time ago. but if the reports appearing in the press are true many who. under the provisions of the act of Congress of October. 1918.- are subject to deportation are being released on bail. and no present purpose seems to exist to. speedily send. them out of the United States.. Several weeks ago I introduced a bill transferring from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice the administration of the laws with respect to the deportation of aliens. It would seem that some agency of the Government is delinquent in: enforcing the law against those who are seeking the overthrow of this Government by force- and violence and who come within the terms of the act of October. 1918. If there were ample grounds for the arrest of hundreds recently "gathered in by the Government." and I think there were in most instances. they ought to be promptly deported. Recently some ministers were very much agitated because we were deporting aliens. and sought to have officers of the law nullify its. provisions. I fancy that some of those ministers would do better service for their country and. for the cause of humanity if they would preach a little more of Christ and Him crucified and mix a little less in affairs with which they are un familiar. There was a demand wellnigh universal in this Nation that the anarchists and the communists and those who followed the proclamations of the third international at Moscow be deported not only because their doctrines were inimical to the perpetuity of free institutions but because the program of the Moscow conference demanded the destruction by force and violence. by revolution and bloodshed. of this Nation and other nations.. The Bolsheviki of Russia called. the Moscow- conference for the purpose of devising methods of carrying on a worldwide revolution and the destruction of all law and order and all governments. and at that international conference declared war upon all nations and the overthrow of the present social structure and the rule of a tyrannous. cruel. barbarous despotism called the dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin and Trotski had. their disciples here seeking to execute this wicked and diabolical policy.