Mr. Speaker. with most of the provisions of the deportation act I am in utter accord. I do. however. register emphatic protest against the methods used in the enforcing of this bill. The Immigration Committee deliberated two months thereon and yet only 40 minutes was allowed for debate among 435 Members and under suspension of rules we are not even allowed to offer an amendment. The bill is supposed to be. therefore. the acme of perfection and we are to be sandbagged and dragooned into taking it or leaving it. We are not even given the privilege.of reading all the hearings on the bill. because the hearings have not as yet been completely printed. One rather suspects the provisions of a bill that is thus forced upon us with no opportunity for genuine reflection or debate. With few exceptions the bill is meritorious. and were it amended into a proper bill it would have my vote. I am opposed to those provisions of the bill now being considered by this committee which provide for immediate deportation of aliens who have been convicted more than once for any vio~ition of or conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act. You seek to amend the previous law. which justly and properly provided that aliens should be deported if guilty of a commission of a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude. Moral turpitude. in my opinion. should be the sole test. Is a man guilty of moral turpitude if he violates the prohibition act?
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