Speech #840060380

If the bill is passed. it then will go to the House of Representatives. In the House of Representatives. the entire procedure I have just outlined as having taken place in the Senate Judiciary Committee will be repeated before the Judiciary Committee of the House. including proceedings before the subcommittee. the full committee. and again before the 435 Members of the House. any one of whom can object to the bill and can state publicly his reasons therefor. In all the hearings. the Commissioner of Immigration has an opportunity to be heard. The Commissioner of Immigration. with the millions of dollars available to him. and a large staff of investigators always consulted. always makes a written report to the subcommittee. which report in turn is sent to the full committee. and which in turn goes to the President of the United States. The President of the United States has expert advice from the Bureau of Immigration. and as all of us know. either signs the bill or vetoes it. For instance. last week the President vetoed the Kurt Glaser bill on the ground that Glaser was an exchange student. and. as the President so clearly stated. he did not wish the exchange of students to be interfered with by having the foreign students stay in this country. when the entire theory of exchanging students was to have the students from foreign countries return to their native lands. All this procedure is being followed in -the Nicolo Impestato case. The Senator from South Carolina introduced a bill dealing with that case. and I was a cosponsor of the bill. Then. without writing to or in any way contacting either Senator JOHNSTON or myself. the socalled Kansas City crime commission rushed a statement into the newspapers. in an obvious attempt to discredit Senator JOHNSTON and myself. -and the cry was heard that Impestato -was a wellknown dealer in dope and -other narcotics. who had been convicted -in the courts. and that when the United States attempted to deport him. a bill *was introduced to stop the deportation of this arch criminal. What are the facts in the Impestato case? Mr.