Speech #740162615

Your attention Is invited to the fact that each and every discretion or provision in this bill is favorable to the alien and the foreignborn. This bill boldly and audaciously raises I the issue of whether one is for or against America and Americans and lawabiding and lawenforcing aliens legally and lawfully in our country. Americans. nativeborn or naturalized. are entitled to first consideration. and first things should come first. I am unalterably opposed to a bill which would place discretionary powers in the hands of an executive or administrator who has knowingly and willfully violated his oath of office by falling and refusing to carry out the mandate of the law which he has sworn to uphold. administer. and defend. And who characterizes the laws he is sworn to administer as "inhuman. cruel. barbarous". and "unworthy of our civilization." We want law enforcement. not administrative nullification. This bill must be defeated if It ever comes before the House for final action. It is necessary that the searchlight of publicity and truth be turned upon this proposed measure in order that our people may know the facts and not be misled by the propaganda of its proponents. This bill would decrease deportations and increase immigration and would substitute indefinite personal administration and personal government for traditional definite administration by written law. definite practices. and fixed precedents. What America needs and what America must have is further -restrictions and limitations upon existing quotas. the establishment of definite numerical quotas for the countries in the Western Hemisphere. a strengthening of our present deportation laws which would make mandatory the deportation of any alien who Is guilty of one or more crimes involving moral turpitude or who has become a habitual criminal. and finally an alien registration law which will require the fingerprinting and proper Identification and keeping a permanent record of every alien who enters this country. We should reduce existing quotas by onehalf in order to give time for naturalization and assimilation of our huge foreignborn and foreignstock population. Establishment of definite numerical quotas from Western Hemisphere countries is essential in order to reduce and control quotas. We must send from our shores every habitual alien criminal. every alien addict or peddler of narcotics. or aliens who have committed a crime involving moral turpitude.