As I have stated. we now have built into the law safeguards which will prevent such a situation from occurring again except in the most remote situation. So I hope that we will not again get fuzzy and pass some law dealing with the situation. when the situation is really academic. But there is a situation in respect of aliens awaiting deportation. raised by the Witkovich decision. with which I think we must deal. Again. we ought to deal with it precisely and clearly. That is. we must determine the specific information the Attorney General of the United States needs to determine whether an alien Is amenable to the process of the Federal Government in terms of his deportation. and also how that alien is comporting himself in his normal relations in his community. I point out that in the Witkovich case the Supreme Court would not permit the Attorney General to question the alien. except on the fact as to whether the alien was holding himself in readiness -for the call to be deported. when it came. The Court did not permit the Attorney General to question the alien as to his activities or how he spent his time. although he was here by sufferance. because we could not deport him along with everyone else who was being deported. It seems to me that a parallel arises between an alien in that status and a person on parole. I am not for clapping a person on parole into jail for life any more than I am for clapping an alien into jail for life. .
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