Proviso 3 and proviso 4 in this bill. I think. should be amended. I hope you gentlemen who are here will realize that I am not seeking anything beyond fairness and justice. that I favor deportation. and that I always did. of any criminal and. again. I am obliged to congratulate myself and pat myself on the back because the committee has finally agreed with sue and has brought in a provision under which we will be able to deport the criminal gunman. In the acts of 1925 and 1926. and in the last years act. that provision wis not in the deportation bill. I then introduced a bill which provided directly for the summary deportation of gunmen. I have no sympathy. and never did have any. with any real criminal. but I do have sympathy for an unfortunate alien who. through no fault of his. finds himself an inmate in an institution. such as a hospital or public sanitarium. where he has been sent because of injury that he has received through nofault of his own. and who. because of that fact. when found to be receiving treatment in such an institution is designated a public charge. though lie did nothing to bring it upon himself. and under our laws is ordered deported because he has not enough funds to be taken care of or treated in a private hospital or sanitariun. I have always favored the deportation of every real criminal. I have no sympathy with those who deliberately come here in violation of the law. trusting to outwit our officials. and I repeat that they should be deported. Therefore. I hope today to be able to support a deportation bill even though it may go a little further than I think it should. providing it may contain provisions which I feel of interest to our Nation. I say. I am hopeful that I may be able to vote for it. providing. however. you will help me to justify my vote for it by eliminating some few unjustifiable provisions which are both unreasonable and unconstitutional. In addition to the amendment which I offer. I have another amendment which I desire to offer and will offer when the proper time comes. and that provides for the deportation of anyone. not only the gunman convicted in court of record. but I will go with the committee a step farther. I believe we should deport every gunman after he has been found guilty the second time of having in his possession any gun. pistol. revolver. or explosive bomb. It should not be necessary that he should be convicted in a court of record. but it should suffice that he has been convicted in any court.
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