Speech #840175148

However. at other points that is not being done. The bill provides that it shall be done at all bordercrossing points. In title II of the bill. section 201 provides that the Immigration and Nationality Act shall be amended so as to read in part as follows: (23) Any alien who has been convicted of a violation of. or a conspiracy to violate any law or regulation relating to the illicit possession of. or traffic in narcotic drugs. or who has been convicted of a violation of. or a conspiracy to violate any law or regulation governing or controlling the taxing. manufacture. production. compounding. transportation. sale. exchange. dispensing. giving away. importation. exportation. or the possession for the purpose of the manufacture. production. compounding. transportation. sale. exchange. dispensing. giving away. importation. or exportation of opium. coca leaves. heroin. marihuana. or any salt derivative or preparation of opium or coca leaves. or isonipecaine or any addictionforming or addictionsustaining opiate. or any alien who the consular officer or immigration officers know or have reason to believe is or has been an illicit trafficker in any of the aforementioned drugs. They will constitute additional grounds for excluding any alien from the United States. Today all violations of our narcotics laws constitute grounds for excluding an alien from this coun*try except in the case of possession of a narcotic drug or conspiracy to violate the narcotics laws. By means of this provision of the bill such cases would be included as Congress evidently intended. It seems evident that Congress thought that all such matters relative to narcotics law violations had been included under the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Seztion 202 amends section 8 of the act entitled "An act to create in the Treasury Department the Bureau of Narcotics. and for other purposes." by authorizing the Bureau of Narcotics to conduct narcotictraining programs for State and local lawenforcement personnel. It creates in the Bureau a new Division of Statistics and Records which would accept. catalog. file. and use all types of narcotic information and statistics received from Federal.