President. I was very much interested in the remarks of the Senator from Arkansas. I am not familiar with the details of the legislation to which he refers. which provides for some method of handling something like 460 cases of aliens who have been convicted of various crimes which make them subject to depo.tation. and who. he says. cannot be sent back to the lands whence they came. but I must confess that the argument is most unusual that nothing should be done to increase the classes of deportable aliens. that persons who have taken advantage of the blessings of our Government and who are citizens of other countries may with impunity violate the laws of the United States or of the several States without deportation. merely because a small number of them cannot be sent back to the countries from which they came. While I have not the figures before me at this time. we have deported each year far more than 460 persons whom we could send back to some countries. and certainly I am not in favor of repealing the law which says that an alien guilty of murder shall be deported merely because. perchance. we have found some one alien who has committed murder. and cannot induce the country from which he came to take him back. I certainly should not be in favor of limiting the classes of crime which subject aliens to deportation merely because this small number have been found who cannot be sent back to the countries from which they came.
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