Mr. Speaker and gentlemen. the proposed amendment to the recently enacted deportation law which will become effective March 2 of this year is to cure a retroactive feature of that law which has caught a few " technically " deported aliens who. before March 4. had a right to return after the intervention of one year. The bill comes from the other body. and if you will look at the REcoan of yesterday. page 3058. you will find the first section of the law. and will note that the amendment is that part stated as a proviso. The new deportation statute made it a penal offense for aliens deported through its terms. provided they are again found in the United States. But under the old law some could return within one year if- they -received :permission from the Secretary of Labor. The new law stopped a few who had received this permission. hence this amendment is offered. I call attention to the fact that this amendment. if adopted. would not permit aliens to have been deported for crimes committed here or crimes committed before they came to the United States. they would not be subject to the amendment because the law stands against the admission of such aliens. Neither would it apply to the insane. It would only apply to those cases known in both the State and Labor Departments as technical cases. All of these develop from the basic immigration act of 1917. In that act a provision that a person permitted to go out and not subject to nonreturn on account of crime may apply to the Secretary for permission to reenter within one year.
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