Speech #740021196

MacCormack. just because he was born in Scotland. is a foreigner unsympathetic with our laws and institutions and wanting to open the doors and let all foreigners into this country. That gossip is not worthy of belief. While I do not agree with the ways deportations have been handled. and the way undesirables have been allowed to come into this country. I have great respect for Commissioner MacCormack. and I admire the record he has made as a soldier. This idle. untrue gossip about him should stop. If we dont agree with him. and want to criticize the way he has handled deportations. and visiting anarchists. let us criticize. but we should do it fairly. and not do him an injustice. In many of the things he has done regarding deportations. he has been in perfect accord with our friend from New York. who has been promising him to pass a bill to give him full discretion on all deportations. From page 85 of the hearings on the Department of Labor appropriation bill for 1936 I want to quote some of the testimony given by Commissioner MacCormack before the Committee on Appropriations. He said that out of 465 cases. representing a total of 546 deportable aliensnow. they were ones that were deportable that he had up under his investigation. and he admits that they were deportablehe says that "439. or 80 percent. would immediately be eligible for return to the United States on a nonquota or preference visa issued at the instance of their citizen or legally resident relative " in accordance with the terms of the bill that my friend from New York had passed here in 1932.