Speech #740127490

The resolution Is as follows [reading]: "Whereas we have always stood for law enforcement and urged that aliens unwilling to obey our laws should be sent back to the land whence they came: Therefore be it " Resolved by the State Council of Fraternal Patriotic Americans. Inc.. in annual session this 12th day of September 1934 at Greensburg. That we are unalterably opposed to the present relaxed enforcement of our weak aliendeportation and immigrationrestriction laws. and to the string of bills that would result in a still further breakdown of our inadequate immigration barriers. alien deportations having already been decreased about 50 percent and reflected by the more brazen activities of alien Communists even leading general strikes recently for the first time and evidenced by the readmission of deported alien Reds like Emma Goldman to proclaim their unAmerican doctrines. and be it further "Resolved. That we urge the transfer of aliendeportation and other immigration law enforcement to the Department of Justice. which has shown itself more sympathetic and efficient in running down gangsters and in law enforcement. and that we favor the enactment of additional legislation like the Dies antiCommunist and the Dies immigrationrestriction bills." Also. last September at its regular annual meeting. the New York incorporated council of Junior Order United American Mechanics. which is not affiliated with the national council represented here yesterday. whose. origin also runs back beyond the middle of the last century and whose members are all nativeborn Americans. unanimously adopted. after detailed report read by its State legislative committee on the socalled " Five administration measures". and after discussion on. a resolution. from which I quote the following [reading]: " Whereas Secretary Perkins and Commissioner McCormack publicly admit lack of sympathy for existing aliendeportation and other Immigration legislation have decreased alien deportations 50 percent. and even readmitted deported anarchists like Emma Goldman. while the Department of Justice seems to be more sympathetic in running down gangsters and apprehending alien kidnapers. therefore be it" apparently. Bruno Hauptmann had been run down by the Department of Justice between the meetings of these two bodies"Resolved by the State Council of New York. Junior Order United American Mechanics.