Speech #740149840

I am sorry. I cannot yield. The question of immigration here has become very impor.tant. I notice by the Commissioners report he admits there .are 4.922.000 aliens in this country. and if we deduct from .that number 1.500.000 who have applied for citizenship. either directly or indirectly through their parents. this leaves 3.422.000. The resolution states they want a stay of proceedings. For what reason? According to the report. so they can have adequate time. and yet in the preamble to their resolution theysay. "Whereas during the first 2 years.the Department of Labor has stayed -the deportation of some 2.600 hardship cases of aliens ". and so forth. They have already had 26 months. and now they are coming in here and asking you for a continued time in order that Congress may have time to study this matter. The problem that the gentlewoman from New York suggested is growing more acute month after month. the longer we let this period lapse.- If what the gentlewoman states is true. then the longer we put this matter off the worse our. problem becomes. I also want to call your attention to this phase of the .matter. Do you notice what they are asking this Congress. to do? They are asking Congress to request the Commis.sioner of Immigration and Naturalization to discontinue the. * stay of deportation of aliens who. under the law. are illegally .here. They are asking the Commissioner to violate the. duties of his office. The resolution has no legal force..