Speech #720220626

I also want to call the attention of the House to the fact that we passed the Dies bill on June 6. 1932. by an overwhelming vote. and sent it over to the other body. where it was unanimously reported by the Senate Immigration Committee. providing for the deportation of aliens who advocate the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force and violence. Up to now no action has been taken upon that bill. because one Member will not give unanimous consent to the consideration of this important legislation which has been pending in the Senate of the United States and if permitted to be voted on would unquestionably pass by a tremendous majority. I hope this near tragedy will call the attention of the Members of both Houses to the condition of utter impotence and powerlessness of the different departments of the Government even to investigate or keep in contact with the revolutionary activities of those who would destroy our republican form of government by force and violence. There is only one group that is responsible for the fact that the Congress has not given this power to the various departments of the Government and that group is the Congress of the United States because of its failure to enact adequate legislation. There are two measures pending. one affecting American citizens who advocate assassination and the overthrow of the Government. which is the Eslick bill reported by the Judiciary Committee today. and the other the Dies bill that applies to alien communists who urge the overthrow of the Government by force and violence. and both should be enacted into law without further delay. I say to you that the only thing that these alien communists fear is deportation. They do not fear the police. and they do not fear our courts or our jails. The only thing they fear is deportation back home.