Mr. Speaker. the purpose of this legislation is to provide a method of judicial review of deportation orders and to spell out the procedure so that aliens who are under deportation orders and who can afford it. cannot find access to the courts by some subterfuge or other. interminably. The opposition to this bill comes from certain people who contend that there are only a few cases involved. which is true. It is because these few cases involve racketeers. gangsters. and Communists. the worst element in our country. that we are here today with this bill. In the large number of cases. running into the thousands annually. there is a deportation order resulting from a hearing. then an appeal follows and no difficulty is involved. But when the Supreme Court. in the case of Brownell against Rubinstein held that the Declaratory Judgment Act was applicable to deportation orders. a veritable Pandoras box was opened for the benefit of these wealthy racketeers under deportation orders who now shop from court to court. with the result that the worst of them have avoided deportation for a great many years. We spell out the procedure here. There is no intention to interfere in any way with the writ of habeas corpus.
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Aliens under deportation orders are racketeers, gangsters, and Communists.