Speech #800180516

I want to address myself to you very seriously for a moment on the point of order. When the bill H. R. 5643 was introduced by me in this House in the Seventysixth Congress. the immigration and naturalization authorities of this Nation said there were only 460 aliens at large in this country. and as free as you are. who had gone through all the processes of the courts and been finally adjudged unfit to remain here in freedom and the warrant of deportation. finally approved by the courts. had issued. They are here today. as free as you are. The Communist Party is largely responsible for nearly 5.000 of such cases today. Russia has not issued a single passport by virtue of which any one of our orders of deportation could be executed. We have by just so much been absolutely deprived of our right of deportation. which is one of our sovereign attributes if we are a free and independent nation. So I say that this is utterly unAmerican. it i$ utterly subversive of one of the pillars upon which our sovereignty rests. the right of deportation. a sovereign right universally recognized by international law as belonging to every free and independent nation. Just because we cannot get the cooperation of another government. I say that the bill which has already passed the House and which has had the approval of the Committee on the Judiciary and which has claimed the very right that is now recommended for consideration by the subcommittee that wrote and now offers this bill ought to be germane to a bill to protect the United States against subversive and unAmerican activities. I believe. sir. that it is germane to this bill. The adoption of my amendment would cure the evil that is thwarting our Nation in the effective exercise of its sovereign right of deportation.