Speech #780188697

Mr. Chairman. I have today introduced a bill providing for the deportation of Japanese aliens Immediately upon the conclusion of hostilities between the United States and Japan. The bill is short. andI am going to read it to you: A bill providing for the deportation of Japanese aliens Be it enacted etc.SECTION 1. All persons in the United States who on the 7th day of December 1941 were subjects of the Government of Japan and who became enemy aliens by reason of the declaration of war between the United States and Japan. are hereby defined and declared to be undesirable aliens and subject to deportation under the statutes of the United States providing for the deportation of undesirable aliens. SEC. 2. Within 30 days after the approval of this act the Attorney General of the United States shall proceed to prepare warrants for the deportation of all undesirable aliens as defined in section 1 of this act. Such warrants shall be executed and such aliens deported immediately upon the cessation of hostilities between the United States and Japan. SEC. "3. No undesirable alien as defined In this act. who has been interned as an enemy alien in the United States. shall be released from internment except for the purpose of deportation under warrant as herein provided. SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. I venture to say that if a poll should be taken today of all the people in the United States to determine whether they desired.to permit alien Japanese to remain in the United States after the conclusion. of hostilities. the verdict would be at least 90 percent against allowing them to remain. On the Pacific coast. I would say that the verdict would be almost 100 percent for their deportation after the war. The blood of our sons who were murdered at Pearl Harbor. and tortured and starved on Bataan and Corregidor. the thousands who have met death in the Solomons. the Marshalls. the Gilberts. on Attu.and other theaters of operation in the Pacific. cry out against this barbarous nation and the barbarous nationals who comprise it. I believe the people of this Nation do not want the aliens of that nation to remain in the United States when the war is over.