Speech #670005686

I will let the proponents defend the provision in their time. and I will hold the floor for a couple of minutes. I say that a doublebarreled proposition has been presented that does not mean anything. Now. a word as to political refugees. We are undertaking to reduce for 14 months immigration to 3 per cent. If there are political refugees escaping from possible death in some foreign countries who reach the United States they canbe taken care of under that per cent. but when you propose to permit under temporary suspension during the next 14 months what happened in the last two or three years in the case of the anarchist. Magoon. who fled from Mexico claiming there was a price on his head and who. when lie got to Los Angeles. set lip an anarchist paper that is still running. We are unable to deport him because he is a refugee. We were unable to deport him all these last two or three years because the then Assistant Secretary of Labor said that lie could prove the man was not an anarchist even though the man said that lie was an auarchist. We are tired of these things in the United States.