Let it be a precedent and let those who should. take warning. Today happens to be the day when. I understand. the Bureau of Immigration goes. over to the Department of Justice. Let it also be the day when America takes charge of her own destiny and says that we have the right to combat the "fifth column" according to the means that we find necessary in order to preserve the integrity and the life of the United States. We have been told by the chairman of the Dies committee that the "fifth column." socalled. presents a new problem in the life of nations. that Norway was unable to meet it successfully. that other nations have found it difficult to meet. I do not maintain that the passage of a bill that singles out one solitary individual for deportation is the answer to the problemfar from it. yet it is the only cpportunity that has been given this body to speak what America thinks of this thingthe insidious penetration of our institutions by aliens who seek to undermine the country whose guests they are. They come here as guests. they should not pull down the pillars of the house. There is only one reason that legislation of this kind is here before us today. It is that the American people have the overwhelming conviction that someone whose job it was to administer certain immigration and naturalization laws has fallen down on the job in the face of a threatening situation. It is a similar conviction that finally reached the head of the present administration that resulted in the reorganization order that transferred the Bureau of Immigration from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice. which is effective today. Foursevenths of the personnel of the Labor Department will be transferred under that order. I am told. .
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Aliens are portrayed as undermining the country and pulling down the pillars of the house.