Speech #740162615

R. 6795 and both are merely new versions of H. H. 9725. which was defeated by an overwhelming vote of more than 2 to 1 in the second session of the Seventythird Congress. The basic defects referred to are the abandonment of congressional control over the deportation of undesirable aliens. conferring practically unlimited discretionary powers upon an "interdepartmental committee". legalizing illegal entrants. and breaking down our present numerical quota restrictions. This bill has been heralded and publicized as a bill to deport criminal aliens and as a restrictive measure. In fact. it would repeal or nullify practically every existing mandatory deportation provision of our immigration acts by substituting therefor discretionary deportation. The admitted chief purpose of this bill is to permit to remain In the United States aliens illegally and unlawfully here or aliens who have breached a condition precedent and promise prior to temporary admission. The socalled hardship cases which this bill proposes to care for would condone violation of the law and reward a violator of the law by conferring upon him the right of American citizenship.