But to declare unlawful residence within the country to be an infamous crime. punishable by deprivation of liberty and property. would be to pass out of the sphere of constitutional legislation. unless provision were made that the fact of guilt should first be established by a judicial trial. It :is not consistent with the theory of our Government that the Legislature should. after having defined an offense as an Infamous crime. find the fact of guilt and adjudge the punishment by one of its own agents. What good cause will the enactment of this bill serve? Wenow have laws to exclude aliens. We have laws to deport undesirable aliens. We have laws to provide for the reasonable detention of deportable aliens. All of our laws apply to aliens as well as to citizens. If an alien commits a crime. he can be punished under our laws.
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