Speech #740198925

I do not know by whom it was written. but I now state to the Senate that I expect to take the report and dissect it limb from limb. and hang it up here for all to look at. so that the Members of this body may see with their own eyes what it is. Let us read just the preamble. The Committee on Immigration submit the following supplemental report to accompany bill S. 2969Which bill is to do what?to authorize the deportation of criminals. to guard against the separation from their families of aliens of the noncriminal classes. to provide for legalizing the residence in the United States of certain classes of aliens. and for other purposes. Other purposes! One of the other purposes they have in mind is the creation of what is to be known as an interdepartmental committee. which will have the power. according to their desire. to administer the laws of this country. When they say that the law is wrong. they will make it right. This report relates particularly to the amendment in the nature of a substitute heretofore reported. which the committee recommended be agreed to. This substitute bill deals with two of the most urgent problems presented by the deportation laws of the United States: (1) The failure of the present statutes to enable the deportation of dangerous alien criminals. Mr. President. I wish to comment there for a moment. because I think this is important. "The failure of the present statutes to enable the deportation of dangerous alien criminals." There is nothing wrong with the statutes. Look into the immigration laws. There is nothing wrong with the laws. They say that the statutes are wrong and that because of defects in the law we cannot get rid of aliens now in this country. They breathe hot one moment and cold the next. In that statement they remind me of the chameleon. one color now and another color the next moment. They tell us that the laws are not adequate to enable the Government to deport aliens. yet at the same time they are trying to get a bill through the Congress to permit 2.862 deportable aliens to stay in the country. Members of the committee want to change the present laws so that those aliens can stay here. Yet we are told that the effort is to enact a law to enable the aliens to be put out. I say that before we pass such a law we should have executed the laws which are already on the statute books. which mandatorially provide that they shall be deported. Someone might say. ."Well. Senator. the 2.862 cases you have mentioned are hardship cases.