Speech #840018237

Now. Mr. Javits was fair in his statement but he is entirely incorrect when he states that a person could be deported for a trivial offense. Actually. a person can be denaturalized only after a verdict of a Federal court. An alien can be deported only for the commission of a felony within 5 years after the alien had been in the United States. or two felonies committed after this alien has come to the United States. As a matter of fact. there are two important cases now in the Supreme Court of the United States that go into this question of the procedures on denaturalizationone from Attorney General Javits own State of New York. On an opinion handed down by Judge Harold Medina. who knows as much about communism as anybody. he stated. "Its worthy of note that the act of 1952 was not hastily thrown together. On the contrary. its a result of years of patient study." and so on. Now. then. we get to the statements made by Archbishop Cushing. He said that the act is discriminatory and the national origins system is antiquated. and there is nothing in the law that will enable us to deal with surplus populations. After all. when the Congress of the United States enacted the Immigration and Nationality Act. it was legislating in the interest of the United States and not. in the interest of other nations. As far as family ties are concerned. it has been the policy of the Committee on the Judiciary. ever since I have been a member of it. to endeavor to reunite families. and I am sure that the record will show that. Rabbi Goldstein seemed to stress the fact that there were nations with large populations who want to send immigrants to the United States. Well. that demonstrates the fallacy of attempting to depart from the national origins system. I certainly dont believe that it would be in the best interest of the United States to fix quotas according to the size of populations of other countries. Rabbi Goldstein talked about the population of Japan being but 70 million. and they had only a hundred quotathey actually have 185.