He also stated that a child was brought into the United States from Canada in his mothers arms: The mother entered the country legally. The child was not registered at that time. or at any rate there was no record of legal entry into the United States. The father had entered the United States illegally and was arrested and deported. In the examination of the case we found that the wife had legally entered the United States but the child in his mothers arms had illegally entered. Under the present law. mandatory in character. deportation was required. The child was put on trial for having entered the country illegally in his mothers arms. and the child was ordered deported. taken from the mother and ordered to be sent to Canada to be placed in the poor farm. The record of the 2.862 cases will reveal many hardship cases as cruelly tragic as the one just referred to. Colonel MacCormack further testified that if the persons in the 2.862 group are deported they will leave nearly 7.000 members of their families in the United States. 4.600 of whom are American citizens and most of whom would become public charges. Of the 2.862 cases which have been stayed. 98 percent would involve the separation of families. and. as I understand the testimony and the facts. those in this category subject to deportation have not been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude. none are anarchists or Communists. none are persons of the socalled immoral classes. The great majority are cases of aliens who have entered the country illegally and involve regulatory provisions of the law as distinguished from the provisions which relate to the inherent undesirability of the individual alien. I am repeating when I state that the primary reason for not deporting those in the class just referred to is because of the hardship it would work on the relatives left behind (most of whom are American citizens). and also upon the public. Deportation in these cases would not only create suffering and hardship for the innocent wives and children.
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