Mr. Speaker. the language of Dean Landis himself. who rendered a 150page opinion in this case. indicates to all the world the answer to the second question. the undesirability of keeping Harry Bridges in the United States. The authorities are clearly all on one side that we can deport him. and I think the evidence is all on one side that he should be deported. As I make this statement I want to pay my gracious testimony to the gentleman from Pennsylvania. Mr. Louis GRAHAM. on the Republican side. former United States District Attorney at Pittsburgh. former Assistant Attorney General of the United States. who has handled many deportation cases and who has dug out much of the law. I am willing to go along with that gentleman because he is an expert from long practice and from an experience of 38 years at the bar. When he says to me we can do it and that he has done it. as a practical matter. that resolves question No. 1 whether we can deport Harry Bridges. On question No. 2. take the record of Dean Landis and it is an answer as to whether he should be deported. Let me add that the bill before us ought to be modified in language so as to make it absolutely mandatory. so that there is no power in or out of government to stop these deportation proceedings. Now to summarize the situation before us. the decisions are quite clear and unequivocal that the element of punishment must be present to make a legislative act fall within the prohibition of the Constitution on bills of attainder and ex post facto enactments. Deportation in the language of the court is not a punishment. Therefore. the measure before us is neither a bill of attainder or an ex post facto act. Congress can therefore deport Harry Bridges.
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