Speaker. none of us want to see In this country the establishment of any system which will allow authorities to knock on our door in the middle of the night or. as in this instance. accost us on the street and spirit us away without an opportunity to consult a lawyer or advise our family of our circumstances. In the name of all that freedom means this must be stopped and stopped now. I think that the proper committee of this House. the Subcommittee on Immigration of the Committee on the Judiciary. should go into this and should find out just who gave the orders in this instance. I feel the Congress should. on the record. go into all the details. also how much it has cost and will cost the people of the United States for this stupid move. and whether this Is standard deportation procedure with the Immigration Service. This is not the first time this has happened. Two years ago the United States Attorney instructed the immigration people of San Francisco to send squads up through Chinatownand pick up any Chinese who could not produce out of their pockets some documentation that they were legally here. I trailed one of those squads for 3 hours and saw the Gestapo methods that they used. pushing people against the wall. and if they did not have the proper papers in their pocket. they threw them into the car. I took that matter up with the gentleman from Pennsylvania and in 2 days it was stopped.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about Chinese people being picked up if they cannot produce documentation.