Speech #750050880

I have had these situations of illegal entrants come up in my own experience. In the last 4 years I have advised four people who were in this country illegally to go back to their mother country and reenter America legally. which they did at great expense to themselves. However. where do I stand. or any other Member of Congress. who advises aliens illegally in this country to go to considerable expense to reenter legally when some other Members of Congress can get these special bills passed making exceptions to the general immigration laws? Our sworn duty is to uphold the laws of this country until such laws are changed. not to make exceptions to laws we have not got the courage to revise. There is one particular title in this bill which should concern us more than anything else. because it relates to a Hindu. We propose to make an exception to the general immigration laws of this country. which state that none may enter America but members of the Caucasian race. If this is the way to legislate. then we ought to throw overboard our general immigration laws and let everybody enter who perjures himself about anything to get in here. including his own name. The gentleman from Massachusetts cannot convince me that a man does not know his own name. no matter in what language it is printed. as he tried to do. If we are going to legislate this way. let us forget about the immigration laws. a revision of which it has been the duty of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization to prepare and offer to us to vote on. Let us quit advising illegal aliens in our districts to go back to their own countries and reenter honestly and legally. and instead let us bring in 10.000 or 10.000.000 private bills every year respecting aliens who are already here and who know enough about the laws to at least see that they can get special favors if their Congressmen helps them.