Speech #720223001

I move to strike out the last word. I ask my colleagues to bear with me to speak briefly upon another subject. as I do not think I shall use the whole of the five minutes. We have during the past week been further reminded of the great necessity for further restriction of immigration and of the registration of aliens. Today I am introducing three bills on the subject. One of them would require the registration. including fingerprinting. of all aliens upon entering our country. those who may enter in the future would be thus registered and identified. and those who are already here would be required to register. All would be required to keep upon their person such identification card or certificate. and the failure to produce it would be grounds for deportation. Another of the bills will close our doors to immigrants. It would stop all immigration to our country. The other would stop 99 per cent of all immigrants. In other words. it restricts by 99 per cent. I have in my hand a brief statement from the Secretary of Labor giving information relative to the nationality and citizenship of Joseph Zangara. or Giuseppe Zangara. who assaulted five American citizens and apparently attempted to assassinate the next President of the United States. Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is as follows: In checking over the records of the Labor Department we found there were 11 Joseph Zangaras who had been naturalized and two others with warrants of deportation pending against them and were out on bond. This made It necessary to go over the records of the entire list in order to definitely determine who the actual assailant was. which had to be verified by photographs from Florida and checked with the immigration and naturalization files in Washington. as well as to have verification from the different ports of entry. We have definitely identified Joseph Zangara as having been naturalized by the common pleas court of Passaic County at Paterson. N. J..