There was ingrafted on to it two committee amendments which we accepted. It did not change. in my judgment. the material effect of it. which was to restore the deportation power to our Government which had been filched from us by other nations who refused to accept their own criminals back. But it had two amendments which might be construed as weakening amendments but which I did not then so consider and do not now. Mr. Chairman. one word and I am done. It is made clear in the Wong Yang Sung decision that it is not only from the requirement of the Administrative Procedure Act. but also: The constitutional requirement of procedural due process of law derives from the same source as Congress power to legislate and. where applicable. permeates every valid enactment of that body. It was under compulsion of the Constitution that this Court long ago held that an antecedent deportation statute must provide a hearing at least for aliens who had not entered clandestinely and who had been here some time even if illegally (pamphlet. pp. 4950).
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