Would we expect it not to give trouble when the legislation reaches the courts. or when it is attempted to enforce the law? Mr. President. if we cannot classify the people of the United States into citizens and aliens without doing tremendous and great injustices. how in the wide world can we frame constructive legislation which will help in accomplishing the objectives which the Senator from North Carolina desires to accomplish. if we pass a law which we know is perfectly easy to be broken by those who are already breaking our laws. those who are probably already in the United States. not of right. who got here in some illegal way. and who would probably be deported from the United States if they were discovered? How can we assume that we can ever correct such an evil merely by asking an employer to get a declaration from an employee? Mr. President. I may reiterate what the Senator from Wisconsin has said. The Judiciary Committee of the Senate has had under consideration a complicated measure governing immigrants. It will probably do all that has been suggested by the Senator from North Carolina. and yet it will be written in such a way as to stand up in our courts and in the practices of our land. Is it not. as the Senator from Wisconsin has said. more in keeping with the way the Senate of the United States carries on. and should carry on. to leave those matters which relate to immigration and naturalization to the Committee on Immigration. and to leave to the Judiciary Committee those matters which that committee handles. and let us have the committees consideration of such questions?
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Generalization that aliens are breaking laws and are in the US illegally.