This bill is to do away with the practice that has arisen in this House of offering private bills to stay deportation. It got so that it was almost an abuse. Members were offering bills to stay deportation where the subject of the bill had died. where the person had actually .been admitted. and in order to do away with that abuse we are offering this bill so that the Attorney General shall have discretionary power in suit*able cases to suspend deportation. but he cannot suspend deportation in certain cases. for example. where the individual is an anarchist or Communist or a criminal or has been guilty of moral turpitude. It is essential that the subject of the provisions of the bill shall have been in the country for 7 years and shall have been a person of good moral character during the past 5 years.
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