Evening star., 1950-10-15
Justice Officials Study
Enforcement Of Some
Deportation Rules
By Gornett D. Horner


: said last night they still are try
2 ing to decide how to enforce some
deportation provisions of the new
Internal Security Act.
They have been too busy trying
to clear up confusion at Ameri-
can ports. where more than 800
newly arriving foreigners have
been detained 50 far, to prepare
regulations for handling the
/. cases Of some types of aliens al
ready here who are subject to
deportation under the new law.
The chief new problem in both
cases-admission and deporta-
tion-concerns foreigners who
once were members of some Nazi
or Fascist organization.
The controversial law says that
such aliens cannot be admitted
/, to the United States, and those
q already here must be sent home,
unless the Attorney General
grants a special exemption for
each individual.
Mainly Aimed at Communists.
Aimed principally at Com
munists. the so-called anti-sub-
versiyes law bans past or present
members of any "totalitarian" Or
ganization as well as aliens def
nitely suspected as subversive
agents, spies or otherwise danger
GUS to public welfare here.
Regulations were reported being
/: drafted, with some hope of COM
-pleting them this week. Some
officials doubted, however, If the
: problem could be finally cleared
=, UP until Congress reconvenes next
month and appropriate commit
tees can be asked for advice on
intent of the law.
The pertinent new deportation
provision specifies that any alien
already = in this country. except
foreign diplomatic officials and
Representatives to the United Ma
tionS and other international
organizations, who ever belonged
to any Communist or other total
ttarian" group or advocated such
doctrines. shall, upon the war
rant of the Attorney General. be
taken into custody and deported."
One big loophole is left for use
at the Attorney Generals discre-
tion. Another section of the law
provides that mo alien shall be
.deported under any provisions of
this Act to any country In which
the Attorney General shall find
that such alien would be subjected
to physical persecution.
Ninth Proviso" Applicable.
Presumably the Attorney Gen
sral also COULD apply, as in the
admission of aliens, the ninth
proviso" whichtgrants him discre-
tion to give special exemptions
to aliens whose presence here is
considered In the public interest
or desirable in the conduct of
foreign relations,
But specific answers regarding
the future prospects of alien resi-
dents to whom the law might
apply must await PRONUNCIATION Of
official regulations and the setting
up of machinery to handle their
cases.
One problem to be settled-and
this concerns the admission of |
aliens seeking to. come here from
abroad now. as wells exactly
what Congress meant by mem
bership" in a totalitarian party |
or any Of it's affliates Did 1t |
mean those forced to join to keep
their jobs under Hitler and Musso-
lini, or just voluntary Nazis and
Fascists? Did it mean to include
in the ban a 7-year-old child in
Quoted into the Hitler Youth Or
ganization, or just those youths
old enough to know what they
were doing?
Indications are that realistic
answers to individual problems
will be sought on the basis of the
merits of each case, with ''nomi-
nal" members being at least re-
quired to prove they had no ideo-
logical affinity for totalitarianism
II they are to be admitted or
permitted to remain here.<