Excerpt from Hearings Before the President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization: September 30, October 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 27, 28, 29, 1952; Printed for the Use of the Committee on the Judiciary; House of Representatives Mr. Ennis. I am Edward J. Ennis, and I am appearing this morn mg as a member of the board of directors and as chairman of the alien Civil rights committee of the American Civil Liberties Union. The union is a N ation - wide nonpartisan organization which is devoted exclusively to the protection and the advancement of the civil rights guaranteed by our Constitution and by our democratic tradi tion. I think I Should say at this point that the union as such is not concerned with the many major questions of policy which this Commis sion will consider, such as the national origins quota basis or the num ber of aliens which should annually come into the United States. It is not because as individuals we are not intensely interested in that subject, but the union feels that it can be most effective if it sticks to the last and devotes its official attention to the questions which concern it; namely, that aliens as well as citizens receive not only that minimum due process protection which our Constitution requires but that they also receive in the protection of their status, their rights and privileges the fairest procedure which our democratic tradition demands and which our experience with administrative procedures can devise. It is for that reason that I would like to restrict my brief remarks to the administrative procedures and judicial review available under the present law and under the new act and which should be available under our system, both in respect to visas and immigration procedures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.