President. a week ago today the chairman of the committee. the Senator from Massachusetts . returned to Massachusetts. and he requested that from that time on I take up the question of handling the KerrCoolidge bill. I realized from that time on that with the legislative situation which existed it was necessary. if we were to get anything done to have it done by unanimous consent. and I have been negotiating with the Senator from North Carolina ever since that time. I made the proposal to the Senator from North Carolina that we could keep in the bill those portions which were giving to the Government the power to deport criminal aliens. section 1. under the terms of which 20.000 criminal aliens would be subject to deportation at the present time. and an increase of 3.500 a year during the years of the future. and that portion of the bill which gave to the Department of Labor the right to pick up these people and to hold them for 24 hours. which. according to every authority on the subject. would be of utmost help in enforcing the deportation law. It was stated that we would strike out section 3. would strike out the objectionable portions of the bill. and leave in only those portions which strengthened our deportation laws. and that we would add to it a resolution staying these people until March of next year. or some date immediately after the Congress convened in January. and I requested that the Senator agree to that. The Senator from North Carolina was unwilling or unable to agree to that. Finally I proposed to him a very simple resolution. merely providing that the hardship cases. which involve not only the hardship of the people who are retained here. but the hardship of their families. and the fact that their families are going to be made dependent upon relief and upon charity in this country if they are deported. but the Senator from North Carolina has been unable to agree to that. I desire at this point to insert in the RECORD another letter from the president of the American Federation of Labor dated June 20. 1936.
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