Speech #870078249

Also during the 85th Congress the House passed a similar bill. H.R. 13311. In my opinion a revision of the procedure for reviewing orders of deportation is long overdue. As evidenced by the fact that both the Judiciary Committee and the House during the last two Congresses have acted favorably on identical or similar measures. this is not a new subject or a subject on which we lack any of the basic information for the pressing need for legislative action. This measure had the strong support of the Eisenhower administration. Judge Lawrence E. Walsh. then the Deputy Attorney General of the United States. in commenting upon the bill in a letter to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee stated. and I quote: It would furnish a fair. Just. uniform. and expeditious system of judicial review. in place of the present procedures under which deportable aliens. particularly subversives and criminals. have been able to delay unduly their departure from this country by unnecessary and unjustified legal maneuvers. Likewise. Byron R. White. the present Deputy Attorney General. has urged the early enactment of this bill. The bill. instead of the present system which permits the alien at his pleasure to bring a multitude of repetitious and dilatory proceedings for the purpose of delaying and frustrating his deportation. substitutes a single uniform system of review in which the aliens rights are adequately protected and in which the issue can once and for all times finally be settled. The objection to the bill is not that it denies the alien due process or the other customary protections of our judicial system. but that it only gives him one bite out of the apple. In other words. it does not permit the delaying tactics that have been successfully employed by many of the most notorious aliens. Many of these aliens have remained in this country for years past the time they should have been deported. I do not believe that objection to it is valid. I believe the rights of the alien are adequately protected by this bill and that it represents a desirable change and improvement.