Mr. President. under existing law. the Attorney General is authorized to suspend deportations. When he suspends them he must report the suspensions to the Congress. If the Congress. by action of both Houses. agrees to the suspension. it goes into effect. We have been passing similar measures right along. I am not advocating them. I look upon them with a great deal of concern. and have so looked upon them. but we are constantly receiving these suspended deportations from the Department of Justice. The Committee on the Judiciary must act on them. must either report them to the Senate or let them die. We have been reporting them to the Senate. and the Senate has been passing them. I do not like the law or the way it operates. but it is the law. and what I have stated is all We can do about tt. Before the committee reports to the Senate a suspension of deportation it is screened as well as possible. with such facilities as are at hand. Each Individual whose deportation is suspended is considered. These are persons who are in this country and who are subject to deportation. Their deportation is suspended by action of the Department of Justice. under a specific law passed by the Eightieth Congress. Therefore on each call of the calendar one of these lists will be found. In this instance. I think approximately 60 deportations are suspended.
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