H. R. 2379. I am hopeful that in view of the exceeding care and extensive study represented in these bills. they may promptly receive the approval of the two Houses of the Congress to the end that we shall shortly establish a comprehensive and sound immigration and naturalization system for our country. This is not the time for a full discussion of the provisions of this bill. but in one connection I think brief comment at this time may be helpful. Senators may remember that the Senate Crime Committee. in its report. made certain. recommendations. Two of these recommendations con-. cerned. first. tightening the immigration and naturalization laws to permit deportation of foreign criminals who are smuggled into the United States. or who jump ship in American harbors and then become citizens by falsifying their records. and second. plugging the loopholes which enable alien criminals to gain citizenship. Mr. President. I should like to invite the attention of the Members of the Senate to the fact that my bill. S. 716. which I introduced on January 29. 1951. contained numerous provisions. and its successor. the bill I shall introduce this afternoon. contains numerous provisions. designed to tighten the immigration and naturalization laws with respect to aliens with criminal records. Mr. President. my bill. which I shall introduce. contains three avenues of approach to this problem: First. it broadens the grounds for the exclusion of aliens in the criminal category to make certain that such aliens are not admitted into the United States in the first instance.
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