This is especially necessary because this proposed legislation is enormously complex. in addition to being just enormous. Hidden in the threehundredandtwoodd pages of this monster bill are provisions which. first. retain and in some respects intensify the discriminations based on racial origin. It is not the least of my objections to this bill that its meritorious removal of the most blatant racist provision of existing law. the one restricting naturalization is used as a cloak for devices which retain the same substantial effect. and even intensify it. I do not think the conscience of the United States can be anaesthetized by any such subterfuge. Second. The bill excepts deportation procedures from the Fair Administrative Procedure Act. I think it wrong to say to ourselves or to the world at large that aliens are not entitled to the same standards of procedure which we have determined to be fair for ourselves. Moreover. it will not do to say that these inferior procedures will be applied only to aliens. It not infrequently happens that persons subjected to deportation proceedings assertand provethat they are. in fact. citizens. Surely such people should have the full benefit of compulsory administrative fairness. But most important of all is the fact that such treatment violates a fundamental American principle.
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