Speech #780170190

I will say in answer to the Senator that in my humble opinion. based on past experiences with respect to hundreds of thousands who are here now. they will never leave. and we will never force them to leave. I recall vividly. and I am sure the Senator from Washington recalls likewise. that for a number of years we had before us the question of expelling criminal aliens. At the time a bill carrying that provision was before the Senate I went to the Immigration Division. which is now in the Department of Justice. and collected the names and the nationalities of more than 2.300 alien criminals who had committed murder. rape. forgery. and almost everything else in the category of crime. and for 2 years I endeavored to get the Secretary of Labor. Madam Perkins. to expel those 2.300 alien criminals. but we were never able to have any of them expelled because they were placed in the category of what it was pleased to term "hardship" cases. I take the responsibility personally of saying on- the Senate floor that very few of the 600.000 refugees and aliens from all parts of the world who have come to this country during .the time when we have been at war. fighting for their liberties. fighting for their countries. vill ever return to devastated Europe. They will want to remain here where the money is. where the opportunities are. where we enjoy the "four freedoms." That is why I protest again and again against permitting these people to come into the United States on temporary visas. or student visas. or permanent passes. or anything else. If we are to keep America American I believe we must deport several hundred thousand Individuals who have tried to indoctrinate our country with unAmerican ideas and to instill them into our people. I say that it is our duty as Members of this body to save America for Americans. and by that I mean save American jobs for American heroes. for American women and American men who are in uniform.