As a matter of fact. the bill was introduced one morning. and was reported by the committee that very afternoon. Yet the .bill contains 302 pages of the most complex legislative proposals that ever have been before the Congress. In the McCarran bill there are other new deportation provisions which are foreign to our system of justice. By section 241 (d). most of the new deportation provisions are made retroactive. A man may have been convicted for going through a stop sign last year. If this bill becomes law. the Attorney General could deport him. if that man were found undesirablewhatever that means. and no standards are established in that connectionfor what he did. even though at the time when he did it the thing he did was not a ground for deportation. Mr. President. think of the possibilities of political persecution in such cases. Let us imagine that the Attorney General found unpalatable the statements made by a certain person. Let us imagine that that person was criticizing the Attorney General. possibly justly so. Let us imagine that the Attorney General found that the man who had been criticizing him was a naturalized citizen and had been convicted of a minor offense. All the Attorney General would have to do would be to find that that person was undesirable. Then he could deport him at once. there would be no judicial review of the case.
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