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iy the destruction of those things which
Americans hold sacred. The law says
that such aliens shall be deported, and
10 is the duty of the Departure OF
Labor 10 enforce the law. 1t has been
enforced. it is enforced, and it will con-
tinue to be enforced.
In the calendar year Just ended 51l
aliens who had committed crimes in
volving moral turpitude and who had
served sentences therefor in our prisons
were deported to the lands of their
birth. These aliens were deported
under the provision in our laws which
says that such foreign-born, nom
citizens shall be returned to the lands
from which they came. During the
year about 1900 other aliens were sent
overseas. Many of these, the majority,
probably, were ordered deported because
they had entered this country Illegally.
Others were deported because they were
preaching the doctrine of destruction
of our Institutions. Stin others were
sent back to their homelands because
they had become public charges.
It should be said that from time to
time aliens legally in this country who
have found it impossible to secure WORK
have been allowed to return to the
countries of their origin at the expense
Of our government. This is humani-
tartan reguIa tion, and the right to exer-
else it frequently Is used. No stigma Is
attached to this proceeding. The I'M
migration Bureau Of the Department OF
Labor uses humane methods IN all OF
its operations and does what 1t can to
help aliens whose only trouble is i'll
ness, extreme poverty or inability to
find employment.
! have spoken Of an apparent mis-
understanding in the minds of many
of the people concerning just what
alien deportation means, how 1t Is ac-
complished and why deportations are
necessary. I have even hinted that
some of this misunderstanding seems
to me at least, on the verge of the in
territorial and malicious. 1t is my In
tention to cite here one or two salient
cases.
Before came into office as Secretary
of Labor, an alien, Guido Serio, an
italian subject, was arrested for openly
advocating the destruction Of this gov
evrnment by force and violence. He
was ordered deported. Habeas corpus
proceedings were resorted to by per-
sons who seem to believe that advocacy
of the destruction Of the United States
Government, carrying with it as
corollary the advocacy of the assassin
alton of government officials, constitutes
no crime against the American people.
These persons, some Of whom are
gathered together in organization, say
that it is an invasion of the constitu-
tional rights of man to try to prevent
him from saying anything that he may
choose, even when the anything" in
cludes government destruction and in
dividual assassinations
Serio, the Italian subject, was re-
leased ON bail and his case went to q
United States District Court. His ar
rest, as I have said, took place before
my entrance into Office, and as the
case quickly became United States
court case I was enjoined, like others,
from having anything to do with it until
the court decision had been rendered.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
case had its origin before my day in
Office and had become a court matter
and could be no present concern of the
Department Of Labor, the charge was
made In press and in public speech that
it was the intention to deport Guido
Serio to italy. where he would be ex-
ecuted Immediately upon landing be-
cause of his anti-Fascist activities.
It was also publicly announced that
Serio in the proverbial II not bromide
"durance vile" for many months and
had seen to it that he could not obtain
bail
When these charges first were made,
Serio had been footloose for many
weeks. and he continued footloose until
recently. 1t was an easy thing to de-
termine the status of the Serio case and
just as easy to learn that he was free
on bail under the protecting wings Of
certain individuals and organizations
who thought he was much abused
man because he was not allowed to go
about breathing out fire and birthstone.
While Serio was at large awaiting a
decision from the United States Court,
the charge was made that the Depart-
ment of Labor had refused to send this
man to Russia, where he would be well
come, instead of italy, his birthplace,
where he would be put to death. 1t
seemed-only seemed-to be unknown
to these friends of the alien that the
United States Government cannot send
anybody to Russia. In truth, the De
partment of Labor had no intention of
sending him to Italy If it could be
shown definitely that he would be put
to death there. In fact, as Secretary
of Labor, I told those who were acting
in behalf of Serio that If they could
find some means of sending him to
Russia would be glad to have them
do so. This expressed willingness on
my part to let the man go where he
and his friends wanted him to go had
little or no effect, for the charges were
repeated that I was bent on sending
him to death
Finally the United States Court to
which the case had been taken, having
learned of my willingness that Serio
should go to Russia If means could be
found to get him there, upheld the
order of deportation, but granted the
alien so days in which to find means to
secure permission to enter Russia. On
December he found, or his friends
found for him, way for him to go to
the land Of his desire. He sailed on