Deportation of Alien Criminals, Gunmen, Narcotic Dealers, Defectives, Etc: Hearings Before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, House of Representatives, Sixty-ninth Congress, First Session, March 25, 26, April 13, 1926. Statements with Appendices and Supplmental Statements on H.R. 344, H.R. 3774 (proposed Deportation Act of 1926.) Hearing No. 69.1.11 |
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... feel that there is a considerable harm in this legislation that is criminal in effect and yet hot criminal in law . You have in every case of criminal prosecution and conviction the pardoning power , and we have always regarded that as ...
... feel that there is a considerable harm in this legislation that is criminal in effect and yet hot criminal in law . You have in every case of criminal prosecution and conviction the pardoning power , and we have always regarded that as ...
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... feel the same way ; but we have to treat them as Americans . Mr. SABATH . The facts were that 400,000 of them were naturalized while they were serving our country . Mr. KANE . Yes , sir ; they did serve and they were naturalized . You ...
... feel the same way ; but we have to treat them as Americans . Mr. SABATH . The facts were that 400,000 of them were naturalized while they were serving our country . Mr. KANE . Yes , sir ; they did serve and they were naturalized . You ...
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... feel . Mr. FREE . You say a large part ? Mr. KANE . I think a large part . Mr. FREE . How do you figure that large part ; how many members of your organization ? Mr. KANE . I do not really know . I have been a member for a long time and ...
... feel . Mr. FREE . You say a large part ? Mr. KANE . I think a large part . Mr. FREE . How do you figure that large part ; how many members of your organization ? Mr. KANE . I do not really know . I have been a member for a long time and ...
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... feel about this thing ; but I could not help sympa- thizing very much with the position taken by the Government in regard to moral turpitude . That is something that has vexed the courts for a long time , and the immigration officials ...
... feel about this thing ; but I could not help sympa- thizing very much with the position taken by the Government in regard to moral turpitude . That is something that has vexed the courts for a long time , and the immigration officials ...
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... feel that is against what should be right . Mr. VINCENT . What limitation do you think would be fair in those cases ? Mr. KANE . Five years , I should think . Mr. VINCENT . What about five years on the gunman and five years on the man ...
... feel that is against what should be right . Mr. VINCENT . What limitation do you think would be fair in those cases ? Mr. KANE . Five years , I should think . Mr. VINCENT . What about five years on the gunman and five years on the man ...
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Page 96 - ... any alien who was convicted, or who admits the commission, prior to entry, of a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude * * * * shall, upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor, be taken into custody and deported.
Page 155 - Treasury, to defray the expense of regulating immigration under this act, and for the care of immigrants arriving in the United States, for the relief of such as are in distress, and for the general purposes and expenses of carrying this act into effect.
Page 88 - That any alien who, at any time after entering the United States, is found to have been at the time of entry, or to have become thereafter, a member of any one of the classes of aliens enumerated...
Page 96 - ... because of conviction in this country of a crime involving moral turpitude, committed within five years after the entry of the alien to the United States...
Page 91 - ... bringing an alien to, or providing a means for an alien to come to, the United States, to prevent the landing of such alien in the United States at any time or place other than as designated by the immigration officers.
Page 202 - Act, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court to notify the Secretary of the Treasury within...
Page 31 - To secure a larger combined influence for the Churches of Christ in all matters affecting the moral and social condition of the people, so as to promote the application of the law of Christ in every relation of human life.
Page 201 - ... persons who have been deported under any of the provisions of this act, and who may again seek admission within one year from the date of such deportation, unless prior to their re-embarkation at a foreign port or their attempt to be admitted irom foreign contiguous territory the secretary of labor shall have consented to their reapplying for admission...
Page 192 - They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth ; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.
Page 84 - The application must state facts showing prima facie that the alien comes within one or more of the classes subject to deportation after entry, and, except in cases in which the burden of proof is upon the alien (Chinese) involved, should be accompanied by some substantial supporting evidence.