Mr. Chairman. I have had a bill pending before the Immigration Committee for something like 2 years which has for its purpose purely the deportation of criminal aliens. That is a subject in which I believe we are all very much interested. We are all. theoretically at least. in favor of the deportation of criminal aliens who are continually stirring up trouble in this country. If you will adopt the amendment I have just offered. which strikes out section 2. you will have then stripped this bill down to a bill which has for its purpose the deportation of criminal aliens and it will remove the controversial feature which. if it remains in the bill. will ultimately result in its defeat. So that you will not get a bill through this Congress which -has purely for its purpose the deportation of criminal aliens. Last year I offered an amendment to a bill which was being considered by the House which amendment had for its purpose the deportation of criminal aliens. but the chairman of the Committee on Immigration made a point of order against the amendment. As I said before. we all. theoretically at least. favor the deportation of criminal aliens. Mr. Chairman. section 2 is the section that has caused all the controversy about immigration legislation in this House for 3 or 4 years. We all know there are a number of aliens in this country who are subject to deportation. and we all know that the immigration authorities. in defiance of the law. have failed to carry out the mandate of the Congress that those people be deported. The purpose of this section is to permit a certain amount of power and permit a greater amount of discretion to be lodged in the immigration authorities so that these people who have come here unlawfully and have remained here unlawfully may profit by their wrong and continue to stay in the country.
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