The Administrative Procedure Act did not go so far as to require a complete separation of investigating and prosecuting functions from adjudicating functions. But that the safeguards it did set up were intended to ameliorate the evils from the conmingling of functions as exemplified here is beyond doubt. And this commingling. if objectionable anywhere. would seem to be particularly so in the deportation proceeding. where we frequently meet with a voteless class of liti-. gants who not only lack the influence of citizens. but who are strangers to the laws and customs in which they. find themselves involved and who often do not even understand the tongue in which they are accused. Nothing in the nature of the partles or proceedings suggests that we should strain to exempt deportation proceedings from reforms in administrative procedure applicable generally to federal agencies. Nor can we accord any weight to the argument that to apply the Act to such hearings will cause inconvenience and added expense to the Immigration Service. Of course it will. as it will to nearly every agency to which it is applied. But the power of the purse belongs to Congress. and Congress has determined that the price for greater fairness is not too high.
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