Speech #770201550

Mr. Speaker. with apologies to Shakespeare: "I come to bury Caesar. not to praise him." I come not here to bury this resolution but to praise it. If House Resolution 433 is adopted it will authorize the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization of this House to study and survey the problems that confront the Nation today concerning the aliens within our gates. that is all. There are different classes of aliens within our gates. the friendly alien and the enemy alien. The friendly aliens here can be divided into two groups: The one that is here on a temporary visa whose time has expired but who cannot be sent back to his home because of the war. Something should be done about this class of alien. and there are hundreds of this kind. The second group of friendly aliens are here illegally. they are people who slipped across the border. who jumped ship. or who in some other way got in without a regular visa. There are thousands of them. I am told. and something must be done about these two groups of friendly aliens. those who are here properly with a temporary visa and those who are here improperly. illegally. whom we cannot deport because there is no place to deport them. This presents two very serious problems. The second group of aliens who create problems and whose problems will be made the subject of study by this resolution are the enemy aliens. These can be divided into three main groups: The Japanese. the Italians. and the Germans. These three groups can. in turn. be divided into three classes: Some who are here on a temporary visa. some who are here illegallyas in the case of the two groups of friendly aliensand some who are here permanently under regular visa. but who are dangerous. but who under our present laws we cannot touch. So I say there is a real problem to be studied and surveyed. It is a great task you will place upon the Immigration and Naturalization Committee when you vote for this resolution. it is a serious job which you are placing upon their shoulders. I have heard whispers to the effect that this is a duplication of the work of the Dies committee. that it overlaps what the Dies committee is doing. As a member of the Dies committee I see not one thing in this resolution that would make it either a duplication of or an interference with the workof the Dies committee. The Dies committee was set up to study subversive activitiesnot aliens of various classes. but subversive activities of all classes. This resolution does not set up this committee to study subversive activities but just to study the problems in connection with the aliens within our gates of the various categories I have already. listed. * What powers does this resolution give the Immigration and Naturalization Committee that it does not have now? As has already been explained. it would give the power to the chairman to subpena through the office of the.Sergeant at Arms or the Speaker witnesses. and to require the production of books and records. That power is given to the chaitman.