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8 Fed. Juror 1 (1937)

handle is hein.journals/fjbfgj8 and id is 1 raw text is: January, 1937 Psulication of rthe Federal Grand Jury Association, Southern District of New Yon, Vol. VIII Nos 1 DEPORTATION OF ALIENS ILLEGALLY HERE DISCUSSED AT MEETING At a General Meeting of the Asso- ciation held on November 10, 1936. at the United States Courthouse, a round-table discussion of the problem of aliens illegally in the lmited States was held. Members of the various Federal Grand Jury Panels as well as members of the Association partici- pated. The principal speakers were Mr. John G. Trevor, President of the American Coalition of Patriotic So- cieties and Mr. Edward Corsi, former Commissioner of Immigration and now Deputy Commissioner of Publir Welfare of the City of New fork. Mr. King Smith, President of the Associa- tion presided. Mr. Trevor stated that he was an advocate of rigid restriction of immi- gration into the United States because he believed that to be the only possi- ble method by which the American people could abolish the slum and sweatshop. He pointed out that unless aliens who had entered the country illegally were vigorously pro- secuted and deported, the entire pur- pose of the immigration restriction laws would be undermined. He said: Need I say to you gentlemen, thatrthe enforcement of all law i- volves hardship. A man sent to his death by a jury of his fellow men brings pain unspeakable to parents, wife and children. A breadwinner is killed. That is tragedy at its maximum. On the other hand, I beg you to remen- her that the deportation of an alien crimimal for the good rsf the country is not exile. Deportation does not of necessity involve even (Continued on Page 6) ASS'N SPONSORS MOVEMENT for UNIVERSAL FINGERPRINTING STATISTICS REVEAL WHAT CRIME MEANS SOME REALLY VITAL FIGURES EVERY CITIZEN SHOULD NOTE Do you know that there are in this country todav one hundred fifty thousand murderers roaming at large, three million convicted criminals and about five million additional persons with police records walking the streets? Do you know that each vear there are twelve thousand murders, forty- six thousand nine hundred eighty-one felonious assaults, two hundred eighty-three thousand six hundred eighty-five burglaries, seven hundred seventy-nine thousand nine hundred fifty-six larcenies, and two hundred forty-seven thousand three hundred fortv-six automobile thefts? lDo you know that a murder is committed in this countr every forty-five minutes, that tshirty-five persons are murdered every day, that there are two hundred thousand per- sons now living who will commit murder before they die and that there are three hundredI thousand persons iow living who will die by ia murder- er's weapon? Do you know that the average murderer serves it sentence of onhl- forty-three and one-half months anl that one criminal is released from jail every two and one-half hours of every dav in the year? ixo you know that each year one out of every sixteen homes is invaded by crime? DI you know that about twenty percent of all the crimes are committed Is boys and girls of less than voting age? BELIEVES IT WILL BE GREAT HELP IN WAR ON CRIME RECOMMENDS ADOPTION IN SOCIAL SECURITY LAW If all registrants who desired could file fingerprints many frauds would be avoided. The principle of universal finger- printing is becoming more popular every day. It has been endorsed by law enforcement authorities, bv the press and by citizens who realize that by voluntarily filing fingerprints in the civilian section of identification maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Washington, 1t. C., citizens may obtain protection not otherwise available. The Federal Grand Jury Associa- tion for the Southern District of New York was one of the first organiza- tions to publicly take an unequivocal position in favor of the universal fingerprinting of the entire popula- tion. In 1933 a Committee on Uni- versal Fingerprinting was created which has since been engaged in publicizing the benefits of universal figerprinting and in combating public prejudice against it. In 1934, this Association filed a resolution with the President of the United States and with Congress strongly urging upon them the enact- ment (f necessary legislation to es- tablish universal registration in the United States and the preservation of permanent identification records of all citizens and aliens residing in this country. In 1935, the Association publiclv endorsed the efforts of the Police Department of the City of New York

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