Immigration Committee Begins Hearing on Holaday Deportation Bill

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Assistant Secretary of Labor Rob Carl White and Commissioner General of Immigration Harry Hull appeared at a hearing before the House Immigration Committee yesterday in connection with the Holaday Deportation Bill now pending before the Committee.

In response to a question by Congressman Dickstein, Secretary White declared he fully supported the proposal of the bill abolishing the present five year limitation period on deportation, asserting that the Labor Department should have authority to deport all aliens who have entered America irregularly, regardless of how long they have been here. When Congressman Dickstein pointed out what extreme hardship this might entail to aliens who have been here many years, have raised families, established businesses and whose children, by virtue of birth in this country, are American citizens, Secretary White said that instead of making deportation mandatory, discretion should be given the Department as to whether or not to deport such aliens in each particular case, admitting that some cases were worthy of sympathetic consideration. The bill of Congressmen Holaday, however, vests no such discretion, but makes deportation mandatory.

Both Secretary White and Commissioner Hull described to the Comimttee the present deportation work and machinery of the Labor Department and complained of the lack of funds for deporting aliens under the present law, stating that the deportation work has been almost suspended since last May because of shortage of funds.

Chairman Albert Johnson said today that it would be some time before the Committee is in a position to act on the many pending bills that seck to amend the act of 1924.

PALESTINE BUDGET ALLOCATIONS

The sum allocated for the Hebrew University Fund in the $5,000,000 budget of the United Palestine Appeal is $250,000, not $150,000 as was reported yesterday. In addition. $75,000 is assigned to the American Jewish Physicians’ Committee for the Medical Department of the University. The allocations in fall are:

Keren Hayesod, $3,000,000; Jewish National Fund, $1,000,000; Hadassah. $500,000; Hebrew University Fund. $250,000; Mizrachi, $90,000; American Jewish Physicians’ Committee, $75,000; Junior Hadassah. $43,000 and contingent funds. $42,000.