I must. therefore. warn you that you should be vigilant and thus protest and vote against this bill. It threatens our liberties. We passed the concentrationcamp bill. the Dempsey aliendeportation bill. and in the Senate there are bills which would stop all immigration. The Senate has bills for immediate registration and fingerprinting of all aliens. and there are bills even for the arrest of aliens for any kind of a misdemeanor or felony without a warrant. Why this avalanche of antialien bills? Why this antialien hysteria that seems to beset the Nation? I am at a loss to understand. except to say that we always seek a scapegoat in times of stress. in times of depression. and just because we want to seek a scapegoat. we put all of the blame for the ills of the Nation on the alien. little realizing that the citizen likewise is to blame for those ills. Under this bill we can deport an alien who has been convicted of a misdemeanor. because it provides that any alien who goes to jail or is imprisoned for 1 year or more can be deported. In many States in the Union. in my own State. there are misdemeanors carrying imprisonment for a year. The selling of liquor without a license is a crime carrying imprisonment for a yearor more in some States. If the alien violates that law. he can be sent hence. Putting a slug in a gas meter is a misdemeanor carrying similar punishment. and violation of traffic laws. as well as trading under an assumed name. Such violations might mean deportation.
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