If the gentleman will not ask me to yield now. I will try to yield later. Then. also. the American Legion said: We recommend that designated persons holding supervisory positions in the Immigration and Naturalization Service be given power to issue warrants of arrest for persons believed to be subject to deportation. This recommendation is also carried in this bill. Also. the American Legion said: We recognize. however. the possibility of meritorious exceptions arising and the necessity of judicial interpretation of appeal from strict enforcement of the foregoing deportation provisions. and therefore recommend the power to exempt from deportation be vested in judges of the respective United States district courts. before whom all such appeals should be heard. The language of the present act. as I shall hereafter explain. recognizes the principle of discretion in meritorious cases subject to deportation. but unlike the recommendation of the American Legion. the present bill vests such limited discretion with the Department of Labor. whereas the American Legion in their convention. recommended the vesting of that discretionary power in a board of review. Likewise the American Legion recommended the deportation of any alien who has been convicted in the United States within 5 years of the institution of deportation proceedings against him of a crime involving moral turpitude or a felony. This provision. not exactly in that language. is to a large extent incorporated in this measure. Now.
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