Speech #680190798

Aliens who have been convicted. or admit commission. prior to entry. of offenses involving moral turpitude. This provision is a part of our present law and has been left unchanged. Aliens who. after passage of this bill. have violated or con- You will recall the words of President Coolidge in his first Bpired to violate the white slave and narcotic laws. message to the Congress: The bill also strengthens the present deportation laws with Free government has no greater menace than disrespect for authority reference to the expulsion of prostitutes and those aliens who and continual violation of law. Import prostitutes. and so forth. It provides that the alien who conceals or harbors aly alien And again: liable to deportation shall himself be deported. and it strikes American institutions rest solely on good citizenship * *. New at the criminal alien who aids or assists aiiy other alien unlaw- arrivals should be limited to our capacity to absorb them into the fully to enter the United States. ranks of good citizenship. America must be kept American. For this The bill also contains certain humanitarian features which purpose it is necessary to continue a policy of restricted immigration. experience since 1.917 shows to be necessary. By humanitarian * * * /hose who do not isant to partake of the American spirit features I mean that provision is made for the care and treat- ought not to settle in America. ment is Government hospitals of those sick. disabled. and dis- The italics are mine. And I want to add that aliens who do eased aliens who tre subject to deportation until such time as they may. without undue discosmfort or injury to themselves. gicat violence to the Ameerican spirit. deliberately flout Amerbe dportd. lan laws. and unlawfully abuse American hospitality should be deported. I have by no means given a complete summary of all the not bie perulitted to remain in America. provisions of this bill. and I do not intend to do so. But it call This bill would carry oi the work so strongly urged by readily be seen from the excerpts I have given from it what President Coolidge and so happily begun in the operation of the bill aims at and what benclicent results would flow from its the restrictive immigration act passed at the first session of a n t this Congress. and I hope it will become a law before adadoption. It must bte remembered tilat a major portioni of thiss bill is a recodification of existing law. jourminent. Tile matter that has been added should not cause contro- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATION BILL versy. because there should be no objection to the deportation Mr. DAVIS of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker. I move that the of the criminal alien who is a menace to our country. a burden House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House to our Government. and a disgrace to every lawabiding alien ois the state of the Union for the further consideration of the in the land. bill . A substantial portion of the bill merely simplifies and clari- The motion was agreed to. fies the procedure to be followed by the immigration authorities Accordingly the House resolved itself Into the Committee of in- the arrest and deportation of those aliens affected by the the Whole House oin the state of the Union for the further bill. And ill other respects It takes care of conditions that consideration of the bill H. R. 12033. with Mr.