It is unconstitutional further. in my judgment. because it does not operate with any degree of uniformity whatever. It is further unconstitutional by reason of its uncertainty. in that the punishment that might be inflicted under this law. if it should become a law. would not operate alike to any two men charged with the violation of the same law. unless they might happen to come from the same foreign jurisdiction. The right to deport an alien does not include any right of indefinite imprisonment under the guise of waiting an opportunity for deportation. That has been expressly held by the courts of this country. This bill does not define any crime or does not define it to be a crime against the laws of the United States for a man to reside here after he is subject to deportation or after an order of deportation has been entered against him by the Secretary of Labor. This bill. if it should be enacted into law. places a higher responsibility. authority. and jurisdiction on the Secretary of Labor than it does in the courts of the country. Briefly speaking. this bill means nothing more nor less than this: If the Secretary of Labor should conclude that a person ought to be deported for violation of some rule or law of the Government of the United States. she shall have the right to put that man in prison. in a stockade. in a detention camp somewhere to be established in the United States. for how long a time? Until such time as he can get his travel papers or his passport from the country whence he came. and you do not know how long he is going to remain in jail. I will give you a little illustration of the operation of the bill. as I understand it.
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