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NV country willing to receive them.

any country willing to receive them.
Another effect of such rulings was
declared to be that many persons are
permanently separated from their
American families, with results that
violate the plainest dictates of human
ity"
In the course of his findings, Open
heimer said that 1t would be highly
unfair to charge these defects and
abuses" entirely to the Department of
Labor, and that the fault lay largely
with the deportation system itself.
It was in his summation that he de-
clared the apprehension and examina-
ton of supposed aliens are often char
acterized by methods unconstitutional
tyrannic and oppressive" and that
there is strong reason to believe that
in many cases persons are deportec
when further development of the facts
or proper construction of the law would
have shown their right to remain"
Among his other suggestions for bet
ter practices were that the "caliber OF
immigration inspectors and patrolmen
should be raised; that more cooperation
be sought between Federal and local
authorities, particularly in the cases OF
alien criminals, and that more provision
be made for furnishing aliens with at
torneys.
"The agencies preventing unlawful
entry into this country should be
strengthened The personnel Of the
border patrol should be increased and
the consular officers abroad should take
further steps to see that the applicants
for visas realize that unlawful attempts
to enter this country are punishable by
fine and Imprisonment. he added.
He also argued for discontinuance OF
raids which constitute alien round-upS
without warrants.
Oppenheimer's study was based pri-
marily on the figures for the fiscal year
1e28-9. He studied, in all, 4o3 cases
involving 496 persons. This number was
arrived at by taking every twentieth
case, in chronological order, from the
deportation files of the Department OF
Labor for part Of the year, and every
flftieth case for the rest OF the IL
months. In this manner, he said, he
believed a representative croSs-ssction
Of the 12,e08 deportations that year was
obtained The Commissioner Of Immi-
grafton and the Secretary of Labor ex-
tended every possible cooperation ir
the study, Oppenheim said. He ex-
planned that he bolstered his study Of
the records by interviews with officials
organizations and attorneys connected
with enforcement of the laws, by vari-
GUS reports, by personal investigation al
hearings and by correspondence which
either covered particular questions NJ
had asked or volunteered information.
He points out, too, that while this
report was being made, independent
studies on the deportation of aliens were
in progress by Dean William C. Var
Week Of George Washington University
Law School and by Miss Jane Perry
Clark, instructor in government Of
Barnard College After completing hi
own report he perused both of these
| studies, and. 80 far as the three re-
ports deal with the same aspects OF tn,
| deportation proceedings, their finding
of facts are substantially the same.
The brief draft Of the commission
I itself. which, with the dissenting opin'
| ions. constituted foreword to Open
heimer's study. characterized as falla,
| cious the current notion that Americas
| foreign-born population was responsible
| for the Nations crime wave,
From other studies made for thi
: commission 1t said, the strong likeli
| hood appears that the foreign born il
! the United States can be definitely ex'
/ onerated from the charge that theI
| have been responsible for a dispropor
| tionate share of the crime current il
/ the country
OF oppenheimer's study. Il said tina
happily" he had found nothing wors,
| than the kind of unfairness to the sus
| pected deportee which occasionally re
| suits where men unframed in the Law
become too jealous as prosecutors to re
main judicial as judges
| Plainly" the commission added
/ there should intervene in this process
judicial body Independent Of the de
/ vi ~hgNernrf with the 1HnafTsf gfYn
/ tive features of the enforcement OF tn
! law
Such q court or commission thu
/ would be wholly disassociated from tn
/ discovery and prosecution Of deportesS
| To such court appeals should be easil,
! prosecuted
1t should hear, in open court and il
the presence Of the accused, al evidenc'
! upon which the Anal Judgment Is TO b
/ predicated. In the end q public recorS
| should be made Of each case