President. I plead with my colleagues to give very careful consideration to this measure. It is not only the tricky subsections and articles and paragraphs of the bill relating to quotas and deportation and denaturalization and powers of consuls and powers of immigration officers which are important to be considered. It is not only sections and subsections which we must scrutinize. We must be careful about the general philosophy which is incorporated in the measure. because it is that philosophy which can cause us great trouble. I repeat that these newly independent and free people are sensitive and are not willing to be pushed around even by a great pbwer such as the United States of America. Mr. President. yesterday I concluded my remarks on the subject of deportation. I have called this bill a deportation bill and exclusion bill because of its many provisions tightening the deportation and exclusion laws. I want to make it clear that the HumphreyLehman bill and those of us who oppose the McCarran bill are thoroughly in favor of deporting and excluding undesirable aliens. We are. however. not in favor of a slipshod bill which unnecessarily hurts the innocent at the same time as it affects the guilty. An example of such a slipshod provision is section 241 (a) (4) on page 109. This section provides for the deportation of aliens who are at any time convicted of any criminal offense if the Attorney General concludes that the alien is undesirable. I ask what does "convicted of any criminal offense" mean? A man convicted for a traffic violation is guilty of a criminal offense.
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