Speech #760245960

I read: By registering all aliens in this country. and requiring periodical reports by aliens at local police stations. I desire to advise the members of the Graham Kiwanis Club of North Carolina. to whom these resolutions have been sent. that recently the Congress enacted a registration and fingerprinting law. Of course. we know that there are aliens in this country who came here in violation of our law. who entered the country illegally. and it is reasonable to conclude that they will not voluntarily register and give themselves up to the authorities. because. on so doing. perhaps. they can be immediately deported. It is likewise my argument. and it is reasonable to conclude. that those who entered legally. and have remained here illegally. will not voluntarily register. because they will be subject to deportation. and they will be more frightened now than ever before since the enforcement of the immigration laws has been transferred from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice. As a result thereof. we will have to wait to see how the law works out in its registration feature from September 1 until the convening of the next Congress. At that time. I wish to say to the Members of this body. I propose to introduce additional legislation which I believe will strengthen the present registration and fingerprinting law. so that we may eventually gather into the net all the alien criminals in this country we are desirous of deporting. Speaking of deportation. in conjunction with the islands whose acquisition I mentioned awhile ago as being desirable from the standpoint of the national defense. we might use some of those island possessions which we want to acquire upon which to detain alien criminals until we can get the countries from which they came to take them back. The resolution continues: By appropriate action to be taken to insure against the continuous action of known agents. or persons. fomenting conditions .calculated to hinder America in any way. during this period of national emergency. by imprisonment. deportation. or detainment in State or Federal concentration camps. I prefer to employ the words "detention camps" rather than "concentration camps." because once I employed the word "concentration camps" on the floor of the Senate. and was severely criticized by many people who have not the same attitude as I have toward aliens. Communists. bunders. and others engaged in unAmerican activities.