The practical effect of this law is that at any time when the immigration inspector comes to the conclusion that a person is an alien and came to this country indirectly and has not observed all the provisions of the immigration law he can hale that person before himself and start deportation proceedings. We must bear in mind that there are a large number of aliens in the United States who have been here more than five years. so that under the immigration law you can not deport them. What would be the purpose of haling these aliens before an immigration board when they could not be deported? We have thousands of cases now pending before the Department of Labor. and they have had them there for four or five years. How can you inaugurate a program of this kind? The inspector of immigration. under this proposed law. would at once become the judiciary. the officer. the district attorney. the executor. and the jailer. He is to determine the fate of the man who has been arrested and brought before him. the man whom he himself has arrested. when the officer is both prosecutor and judge. and after complete examination he has then to present the facts to the Secretary of Labor for final determnination. and the Secretary uses the act of Congress as his authority. There is no report of the proceedings of any kind in these cases.
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