Speech #810322126

Mr. President. speak for themselves. May I repeat that the Attorney General of the United States testified before our subcommittee that under the existing law the Department of Justice is powerless to exclude any alien with a diplomatic passport. and the Chief of the Visa Division could not recall a single case in which a visa had been refused on security grounds to an alien who applied for a diplomatic visa. notwithstanding the fact that over 160.000 such visas have been issued since There is one other facet of the overall problem which I should like to comment on before proceeding with an analysis of the bill. Under the present laws. there are literally thousands of cases of aliens who have been found to be deportable but who cannot be deported because of certain technicalities in the law. The records show that on April 15. 1949. there were some 3.278 warrants of deportation which had been issued over a period of years that were not enforceable. Of the aliens covered by these warrants. 2.147 were socalled ironcurtain nationals. and of that number. 1.180 were Russians. Of the 3.278 deportation orders 1.293 were based on criminal or immoral charges. and 112 were issued under the law relating to anarchists and similar subversive classes. The records also show that there are 416 additional pending cases in which there is every reason to suppose that deportation cannot readily be effected. Of this number. some 139 are of the criminal or immoral classes. There are at least 91 of the pending cases which involve persons who are subject to deportation to the socalled ironcurtain countries. At least 11 of these 91 are Russians. Furthermore. at the close of the fiscal year 1949. the records showed that there were under investigation. looking to deportation or under actual deportation proceedings. the cases of 1.067 aliens. who. prima facie. are deportable as subversives. But in all of these cases under the present law the Government of the United States is powerless to execute its orders of deportation. and the aliens are free to roam the country at will. Furthermore. on the bases of the present trend there is every indication that the situation will become progressively more serious. And now.