Yes. This means that under existing laws. for every criminal alien who is deported two are permitted to escape. The same laws which deal so lightly with the criminal alien bear with unbelievable harshness and severity upon the noncriminal alien. While any judge or magistrate can avert the deportation of criminal aliens not even the President of the United States can avert the deportation of an alien who is not a criminal. Under the present law. aliens of good character are torn from their families. their wives and children. wives from their husbands. and at times children from their parents. It is not unusual for these families to be dispersed to several countries beyond any possibility of reunion. In many. if not in most. of the cases of aliens of good character. their families are left behind in the United States to become public charges. These are the two problems with which the bill under consideration attempts to deal. It provides the means for deporting three times as many alien criminals as are deported today. It likewise provides a means for the exercise of humane discretion in the case of noncriminal aliens who have their families in this country and whose deportation would result in serious hardship and suffering to the innocent and in imposing on the Government of the United States the cost of their maintenance. The bill does not deal with immigration policy. it confines itself to the correction of the defects in the law which impede proper administration. Its passage will solve the two most serious problems with which we are confronted in the administration of the immigration laws: The deportation of the undeserving and criminal aliens. and the introduction into our deportation statutes. insofar as they affect aliens of good character. of the American principles of justice. humanity. and the protection of the home and family unit. I read the following letter from the Secretary of State:
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