Once he has so sworn. the other country will never take him back. That is the trouble faced by the Labor Department. but we should have an act which would permit the demoting of citizens who misstated their positions at the time they took their final examinations or the oath. To build such a law is a hard task in addition to the many other heavy burdens of the Immigration Committee. I would like. if I had time. to discuss an amendment proposed to the Bachmann bill. which bill was written as a result of the Fish committees investigation. that would add to the act of 1918. as amended by the act of 1920I always call it the enlarged deportation act. I will discuss the question of forbidding the arrival of communists as such. with no further definition. and the deportation of communists. with no definition as to whether that bill should be passed in exactly that way. We can authorize the United States consuls to forbid the arrival of communists on the consuls belief that the applicants are communists. We can do that through what I call the "hookup" clause in the 1924 act. But should we add a second paragraph to the Bachmann bill to the effect that a socalled alien communist can only be deported if he is an international communist or international political communist? In other words. should there be a definition? It is my belief that if you provide. without a definition. for the deportation of alien communists. although we will know what we mean and so will the enforcing officers. we are likely to create a reaction in the country among our own people that we are after a man because he is an alien in my district or yours. a fairly well meaning but more or less ignorant alien. who says aloud in these fearful times: I have had no pay check for two years. I have had no work. the capitalistic system has played out. I will try anything.
Identified stereotypes
Poor, ignorant aliens are easily swayed by communist ideology due to economic hardship.