* * We have. however. the right to determine when deportation shall take place. That is a right that has been established and exercised through all the years the immigration acts have been in existence. We set aside cases that at first appeared to us to be appealing. and fixed a date for deportation as of July 1 of last year. to enable our presenting these cases to Congress for its consideration. Congress failed to act favorably upon the first of the bills presented. as those of us who were present are painfully aware. but directly thereafter the gentleman who had led the battle on them came to us and urged us to continue the stay of the cases already stayed. and to continue the stay of such similar cases as might arise in the interval between Congress departure and its return. I refused to continue with the stay of these cases until I could have some definite proof that that was the intention. if not of the Congress as a whole. at least of the committee which was responsible for its immigration and naturalization activities. Your committee passed a resolution unanimously. which was communicated to the Secretary of Labor and to myself. as Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization. In that resolution. you asked us to continue the stay of the cases already stayed. and of such other cases as might arise in the interval before Congress again convened. A bill was introduced into the Congress. with the same sort of a preamble to it.
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