Frank Cammarata was also charged with illegal entry into this country. He was convicted of bank robbery In Detroit in 1931 and was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in the Michigan State Penitentiary. The Bureau of Immigration then took cognizanceof the fact that Frank Cammarata was not a desirable American citizen and deportation proceedings were instituted. He was paroled December 16. 1936. by the Michigan authorities for the purpose of being deported back to Sicily. In 1946 the Immigration authorities discovered that shortly after his deportation. Frank Cammarata had. some time during 1939. been smuggled back -into this country and that he had been -hiding out in Ohio. - The Michigan State authorities sought to have Mr. Cammarata brought back -to that State as a parole violator to serve the remainder of his sentence.. The .Immigration Bureau likewise brought charges of illegal entry against this . racketeer and again asked for his deportation as an undesirable alien. The efforts of the Immigration Bureau * to deport this criminal were blocked. however. by the introduction in Congress of three different bills. the purpose of which was to delay deportation proceedings and to give protection to Frank Cammarata. Those three private bills were as follows: H. R. 6286. introduced April 20. 1948.
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