Speech #830100574

Now. I say to the gentleman from Pennsylvania let us get off the sporting pages. the art pages. and get on to the front pages of the newspapers. then you will find another story. Now. let us look at this other security provision. section 10 (a) : No alien shall be issued a visa under this act or be admitted into the United States unless there shall have been first a thorough investigation and written report made and prepared by the Administrator or by officers of the United StatesAnd so on. That means just this: That the alien who was an active Communist Party workerand do not forget that there have been 4 purges from the territory that these people come from. at some time or other their crowd was running the shownow that person goes to the Administrator or the officer of the United States designated by the Administrator and he says: "I am a man of good moral character. I have never been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude." In that connection I would like to say that the gentleman from Massachusetts did not refer to an excludable cause under our Immigration and Nationality Act when he said it was a crime to be a Catholic behind the Iron Curtain. What we mean in connection with immigration is that the crime must involve moral turpitude according to the United States laws.