Sir. Chairman. this bill provides for the deportation of any unnaturalized foreignborn person. any alien. who may be convicted of a violation of the national prohibition act of October 28. 1919. the Volstead Act. orIc) Any other stat ute of the United States. or of a State or Territory. prohibiting or regulating the manufacture. sale. transportation. importation. or exportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes. And so forth. Aliens are to be deported. not only for violading a Federal statute but for violating a State law. To subject aliens to deportation under this bill it is not necessary that they shall be convicted by a court of record or after a jury trial. Even a police court conviction or a conviction by a justice of the peace will provide the required basis for their deportation. Aliens so convicted are not merely deported without other punishment. The deportation is in addition to such punishment as may be given them by the courts convicting them. After they serve out their sentences or pay their fines they are then to be deported. that is. are to be sent back to the foreign land in which they may have been born. The bill provides for a double punishment for a crimepunishment by the court which tries the alien and punishment by the Bureau of Immigration which deports him . punishment by fine and ilprisonment in this country and then by banishLXII320 ment to some foreign land from which perhaps the alien fled to save his life. The bill discriminates between American citizens who violate our laws and aliens who violate them. The citizen expiates his offense by fine and imprisonment.
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