Speech #760053234

I want to be courteous. Let there be no mistake as to whom this bill affects. The Bureau of Immigration advises that during the last year in 460 cases aliens. who had been ordered deported by the proper authorities. could not be deported because of the failure or refusal of the foreign governments to grant passports for their return to the lands of their origin. In other words. the duly constituted authorities of our Government. under constitutional laws enacted by the Congress. determined that these 460 persons were subject to deportation. were undesirable citizens. were aliens who did not think enough of our country to become citizens. Notwithstanding all of this. simply because some foreign nation refused to permit these undesirable aliens to return to their homes. there was nothing that the United States could do about it. It hardly seems possible that a condition exists where this type of alien is permitted to thumb his nose at our laws and our authority. and that we can do nothing about it. This bill is a step in the direction to vitalize our immigration law. This is not a criminal law. It is a civil procedure. No alien can be accused of any crime under this law. The gentleman from Oklahoma proceeds upon the theory that the aliens affected by this bill are charged with some crime or violation of the statute laws of cur land and are. therefore. entitled to trial by jury before they can be deported. Our law provides the specifications for deportation of undesirable aliens. For instance. if an alien is a Communist and advocates the overthrow of our Government by force and violence. then he is deportable. If an alien under certain conditions commits crime and is found guilty in the courts of a felony involving moral turpitude. then he is subject to deportation. There is nothing complicated or subtle in this reasoning. and the Government may proceed to send the alien back to the land from whence he came. However. under the law of nations the United States cannot ship to any other nation any undesirable alien found within our borders unless that nation grants to the alien a passport or reentry permit. Let us take Communist Russia for example. Communists enter this country from Russia. either legally or illegally. Then if one of them so conducts himself as to make him subject to deportation and our officials proceed to deport him. giving him the protection of our constitutional right of habeas corpus and all the safeguards of the courts. and the procedure is legal and regular. and the only thing that prevents the return of this undesirable alien to his native Russia is the refusal of that country to cooperate with the United States in these circumstances. Russia should not be permitted to prevent this country carrying out its law. The Bureau of Immigration advises that about 50 persons will be affected each year if this bill becomes a law. Now. the American people do not want these Communists. organizers. agitators. and promoters of communistic philosophy creating disturbances and trouble in this country. Our people want to send them back from whence they came.