Speech #820210835

I am somewhat amazed to note that some of the proponents of the McCarran bill are willing to sponsor a measure which would vest in the Attorney General power which may well be termed arbitrary. During the debate on this bill I have noted that. in the main. those who sponsor the McCarran bill are among those who have been criticizing most severely the Executive. they are among those who constantly are speaking of usurpation of power by the Executive and of the importance of the constitutional checks and of due process of law. Yet when they come before the Senate with this immigration bill. we find that they have literally knocked out of the bill any provision for the observance of due process of law. the Administrative Procedure Act. or court reviewmany of the basic tenets of AngloSaxon law. Let us remember that the Attorney General is a busy man. He will have to delegate his power to his subordinates. Under the present provisions of this bill. we shall find the following: A minor bureaucrat in the Immigration and Naturalization Service will decide whether a person is a desirable alien or whether he should be forever taken from his home and his friends and banished from the United States. leaving behind his wife. his children. and his friends. Such power is too great to be placed in the hands of any official. either minor or major. particularly when the power would not be subject to the basic protections of constitutional law. Mr.