It -is most important! Introduced into the Congress only the day before yesterday and reported out by the committee yesterday and reported out by the Rules Committee yesterday. and what does it mean. what does it say? It says that we are going to ask the deportation officers to continue the stay of deportation until March 1. 1936. What have we come to that a Congress of the United States has to ask the deportation officers not to deport people when the law says that they must be deported! I wish I could impress you with the fact that this socalled " resolution" is nothing more than -a blind behind which the Secretary of Labor. is seeking to shield herself. from the just criticism that would be directed at her if the facts were known. Why did she not deport those who should be deported and spare those whose cases excite sympathy? There are over a million aliens now in the country illegally. Why do not the officials engage themselves in ferreting out these criminal aliens and deport them? Do not be misled. not a single one of these 2.600 will be sent out. Why do I say that? It is because this administration has allowed twice as many to enter in 1934 as entered in 1933. and deported only onehalf as many in 1934 as in 1933. Do not be carried away by this sob stuff that we have been hearing for years about breaking up families. There is nothing to that. We are not breaking up any families. None of these people will be deported. Why? Because in the very first of this resolution it reads: Whereas during the past 2 years the-
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