If I read my history correctly. the existence of concentration camps on the island of Cuba. instituted by General Weyler. called at the time "Butcher Weyler." was one of the factors that helped enrage the American people and fanned the flames of the SpanishAmerican War in 1898. The very idea of human beings kept in prison because the Government fears them is nauseating to Americans. It is true that the class at whom this bill is aimed is the criminal or undesirable alien who cannot be deported because his native government refuses to accept him. In the troubled and changing conditions that exist it is natural for us to resent this. We do not want thcse criminals. and we cannot get rid of them.
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