If the executive branch of the Government were both omniscient and infallible. we might expect good results. As a matter of fact there has been the very gravest injustice perpetrated by executive tribunals of the character that is contemplated here. In the very matter of immigration. when I was Solicitor General I knew of cases of such hardship that in one case where the immigration authorities had excluded a poor little Polish girl who was deaf. dumb. and blind. who. if refused landing. would have been thrown back upon her country. where she had no relatives or friends. to die. I went into the Supreme Court and confessed error. because it was one of the most flagrant cases of "mans inhumanity to man." and it was simply the spirit of bureaucratic power that induced the exclusion of this unfortunate little girl. The trouble isand I call the attention of the House to itthat the moment you shift from the judicial to the executive tribunal the right to communicate with millions of people. what follows?
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