Speech #820211871

I should like to submit one further bit of evidence to indicate the desire of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to be exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act. I shall read from the Appropriation Act for the D~partment of Justice. Eightyfirst Congress. second session. page 5: Proceedings under the law relating to the exclusion or expulsion of aliens shall hereafter be without regard to the provisions of sections 5. 7. and 8 of the Administrative Procedure Act. That was written in at the request of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It indicates their desire to be excluded from the Administrative Procedure Act. While that particular rider would be repealed by S. 2550. there is no doubt that they would take advantage of every provision I have referred to in the pending bill which might permit a claim of exemption and which does not make the application of the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act mandatory.