Speech #750050932

I do not expect this amendment to pass. I am availing myself of the time which the offering of the amendment affords me in order to point out that we are not here for the purpose of passing alone upon the initial wrongdoing of the person whose name is printed in the bill we have under consideration. But. despite this. every Member who has risen in opposition to the passing of any of these titles has confined his discussion entirely to the original wrongdoing of the immigrant in obtaining admission to this country. The various speakers have each maintained that the individual should be denied the right to remain here. as the bill will authorize. simply because he or she has been guilty of some offense connected with his or her entrance into this country. Every person whose name has been mentioned in any of these titles has admitted at the outset that he or she. as the case may be. has been guilty of falsification of facts in obtaining admission to the United States.