These people in the pending cases are before us because they want citizenship. they want everything. They want to be put on the same basis as nativeborn American citizens. We are not agitating deportation for them. We are going to let them stay heredo not be worried about that. They could bedeported. but there are tens of thousands--yes. there are probably a million people in this country that might be deported. but where are you going to send them? Many of them have no place to go. Russia will not accept her former citizens. Italy has restrictions with reference to them. This talk about sending them all back where they came from sounds good when made before a patriotic American audience. but we have thousands that cannot be sent back where they came from. and that is true of some of these in this bill. and they know it. and that makes them bold to demand citizenship. The United States never deported an alien yet when we had no place to send him. Whenever one was deported he had a place to go. I am not in favor of deporting people when they have no place to go. No true American wants to send these people back to threatened punishment. and there is no danger in that direction. The Department of Labor has a list of thousands who are deportable. but they are taking no steps to deport them. But. Mr. Speaker. a new principle is involved in this bill. This is the first time in the history of this great body that a bill like this. including 12 private immigration bills. has been brought in for consideration. Since I have been in this Congress I saw the first private bill passed. about 8 years ago. Up to that time not~a single private bill of this kind had ever been passed.
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