We want to send everyone home and make them stay home. We propose to bring before the House some very constructive legislation. We propose also to add a number of sections to our deportation law which presently do not exist. For instance. under the present immigration law a dope peddler who has committed: a crime in one of the various States cannot be deported. He is an alien dope peddler. yet he cannot be deported. An alien gunman who commits a violation and the worst sort of a crime cannot be deported. We are bringing in legislation. and with your cooperation we will get rid of the racketeer alien. the gunman. and the dope peddler. but at the same time would not you. even those of you who are restrictionists. like to see the little son or daughter of an American citizen reunited with their parents? Do you not think we ought to have some humanity in the law that will give some power to some Government official to take care of the alien who has committed no wrong whatever. who has been in this country almost 20 years. but. because some inspector of immigration finds he did not pay a head tax when he came in he is subject to deportation. whereas the racketeer. the gunman. and the dope peddler cannot be deported? You cannot deport a habitual criminal alien who commits crime day in and day out. year in and year out. why? In order to deport him. under the present law. you have to prove that he has been guilty of two felonies involving moral turpitude. each with a conviction and a sentence of 1 year and a day.
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