Mr. Speaker. I am perfectly sure that the distinguished gentleman who has just spoken understands full well that the constituted authorities of this House never have had the remotest idea of doing violence to the jurisdiction of any committee. much less the important Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. What I wish to say is. no doubt. already in the Speakers mind. but I wish to call to the attention of the distinguished chairman of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization that this bill has nothing whatever to do with immigration. has nothing whatever to do with naturalization. has nothing whatever to do with deportation until after warrant has been aborted. It is merely a sincere attempt to plug a hole in the dike. After the constituted authorities of this Nation. acting under congressional mandate. have ordered the deportation of these aliens that fall within the four classes covered by this bill. their deportation has failed because foreign nations thumb their nose at Uncle Sam and say. "Keep our trash." We take it up. therefore. at a point where the jurisdiction of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization of the House has utterly ceased. in a field that its jurisdiction never was designed to cover. and. what is moreand I submit that probably that profound. honest. and erudite gentleman who made the reference to the Judiciary Committee may have had this in mind. the outstanding characteristic of this bill is that it enlarges the jurisdiction and function of the circuit courts of appeals of the judicial system of this country. and also somewhat changes the practice of the district courts. Dealing. therefore. with a matter involving judicial jurisdiction and functions. and covering a subject matter which is in a field beyond the jurisdiction of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. it was properly. naturally. and inevitably referred to that committee which has jurisdiction of the judiciary.
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