Speech #690145627

I should like to be notified when I have used five minutes. Gentlemen. this bill is not a vicious bill. It would be well for those who consider the text of the bill to keep in their minds the difference between the expulsion of aliens coming to the United States and the deportation of those aliens within the United States. This is a deportation bill. not an exclusion bill. It rewrites. codifies. and enlarges present deportation clauses of the immigration laws and enlarges some of these clauses. I would like to say that if the United States is to maintain a policy of restriction of immigration it becomes necessary for the United States to adopt more effective laws for the deportation of those who evade the restriction provisions. And if the United States means business with its laws with regard to white slavery and allied offenses. also if the United States means business with its prohibition law and the various narcotic lawsand I think it doesit is necessary to have a law which means business with regard to the alien violators of such laws. This bill Is aimed directly at the alien white slaver. at the alien gunman. at the alien narcotic peddler. and will. in my opinion. be effective. It is pretty well known that the attempt to deport alien narcotic violators has not been successful. A statement has been sent to you by one of my colleagues on the committee. the gentleman from Illinois . In which he calls attention to the fact that for the fiscal year 1925 there were deported for violating the Harrison Narcotic Act only 11 aliens.