I am satisfied the cases hold that this type of legislation would be clearly constitutional. For example. there is the case of Wong Wing against the United States. In that case the Government tried to make the presence of an alien. after he had been ordered deported. a crime. and punishable as such. The Supreme Court did not even say you could not make that a crime. As I understand their holding in that case it was that if you do make it a crime and punish it by hard labor. for example. you must. under the fifth and sixth amendments to the Constitution. give the man the right of trial that any criminal has. This is in no sense a criminal statute. In no sense does it impose any criminal punishment whatever. and I think the author of the bill has drawn it very carefully to eliminate any notion whatever that this is a criminal statute. This Is a detention statute only and it is in the aid of deportation. which is clearly within the right of Congress.
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