Speech #750168381

rr.ING. I would like to raise the point that we are not changing the status of any deportable alien by deferring action during the consideration by Congress of remedial legislation. The question of the propriety of such delay does frequently come up. because there are a number of private bills introduced from time to time to relieve individual aliens from deportation. The question came to me the other day in connection with such a bill whether an alien should be deported after a bill had been printed and filed with the Immigration Committee of the House of Representatives--whether to deport him. I consulted the Immigration Committee. I thought he ought to be deported. If it had not been for the introduction of this private bill to relieve this alien. he would have been on his way to Italy or even back in Italy now. I raised that point with the Committee on Immigration. and they asked mealthough I described it to them as a narcotic case where a Federal pardon had been refused. a case where the alien certainly ought to be deportedI asked them not to ask me to stay deportation. and not a man on the Committee would raise his voice to back me up. Should I have to deport that allen in the presence of a private bill to relieve him? Maybe I was wrong to stay deportation.