Speech #710301242

President. I dislike to occupy even a moment because I want the opponents of the bill. if there be any. to have such time as they feel necessary. Those who are interested in deporting undesirables and other aliens who are illegally in the United States will give support to this bill. which. including other similar bills. has been reported unanimously three times from the Committee on Immigration. Briefly. the object of the bill is to prevent the bringing into the United States of a large number of persons. particularly orientals. in violation of the immigration laws. It is intended to apply to two types of aliens: First. aliens of any class employed on vessels arriving in the United States and who are found upon inspection to be mala fide seamen. and. second. aliens employed on vessels arriving in the United States who are ineligible to citizenship. Section 2 of the bill provides for the inspection of every alien employed on board any vessel arriving in the United States from a foreign port to determine. first. whether he is a bona fide seaman. second. whether he is an alien ineligible to citizenship. and. third. whether or not he is suffering from any disabilities or diseases specified in section 35 of the immigration act of 1917. Section 3 of the bill provides that if any alien so employed is found not to be a bona fide seaman he shall be regarded as an immigrant. immediately removed from the vessel to an immigration station. and. if he is found to be inadmissible as an immigrant. he shall then be deported as a passenger on a vessel other than that by which brought. and at the expense of the vessel by which brought. It is further provided that the vessel which brought such inadmissible alien to the United States shall not be granted clearance until such expenses of deportation are paid or their payment satisfactorily guaranteed. An appeal to the Secretary of Labor may be had from any decision holding any such alien not to be a bona fide seaman and also on the question of his admissibility as an immigrant except where exclusion is based upon grounds nonappealable under the immigration laws. Section 4 of the bill provides that if any alien so employed is found upon such inspection to be subject to exclusion because he is ineligible to citizenship. he shall be removed by the master of the vessel to an immigration station and deported either to the place of shipment or to the country of his nativity. as a passenger in the same manner as provided in section 3. (Shown in sec. 7.) Under section 5 of the bill. if any alien employed on board any such vessel is a bona fide seaman and is afflicted with any of the disabilities or diseases specified in section 35 of the immigration act of 1917. his case is to be governed by the provisions of the act of December 26. 1920. providing for the treatment in hospitals of diseased alien seamen.