No. As is so frequently the case. these perfectly innocuous -statements are designed to serve as sugar coating for an otherwise unpalatable pill They are the sheeps clothing in which the wolf of reaction masquerades. The next clause reads: Whereas the right to .detain an alien subject to deportation is but a necessary incident of the right to exclude or deport. Whereas the bill promised to be a mere legislative tautology. it has now become a judicial flat. -Of course. the reasonable detention of an alien subject to deportation is but a necessary incident of the right to exclude or deport such alien. But we now have on the statute books more than enough laws authorizing such reasonable detention. and we. have a steady stream of judicial decisions upholding such reasonable detention. This bill. however. as the minority report shows. as the report of the Department of Justice shows. and as a little reflection will make obvious. is intended to authorize a most unreasonable. unconstitutional. and unAmerican detention.
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