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Albert Einstein — Part 1
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co, MEMORANDUM OF BC. ACE THAT ABBERT EINSTEIY” TWADKISSIBLE
“—“Pairst, to provent oomfusion (such ns has ‘6ften banifostod —~
4téelf in regard to alien exclusion cases, ovon anong lawyers)
Tit ts to be recalled that an alion socking admission to the -
“United States fe asking a favor and sooking o pee priviloge,
- that may be grantod only upon suc! ors, con ons
~~ Westrictions as tho United Statos may doon desiradlo, .-
2 No alion {8 compelled to entor the United Btatos. If he .. .. *
i does not like Amorican torma of admiseion, ho ean stay out. . net
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And if he does not moot Amorioan terms of admission, our .
Governmont ean koop hin out, without ony injury to bis ~ 0
o...—-- person or property, or danial of his liberty, and altogother 2.200 729
- without any trial ty court or jury undor tho strict rulos of .
evidence that safcguari tho peraon or proporty of ono charged
witb an offoneo, from unjust punistmont or loss, Many govorn- ~~
nonts, notably Groat Britain, simply toll an alien that thoy
fon't want him, and that omds tho mattor, Without ‘oven a —
right of tho alien to ask thos why! .-
Tho nlion scoking admission ie not on trial before a court Ltt t
of law; ho is not in foopardy of his Oy y or property; _?
8 undor no compulsion at all to appoor at our gatos. And a
likowlec, the two sots of Amcrican officers, in two difforont
Aopartnonts of Govornnent, that Congross has Airectod to guard
the gates, nood not opon then wmtil and unless each is sntis-
fied,"beyond reasonable doubt” that tho alion is worthy of a
re privilcgo---which millions of aliens thr ou iS
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Wo: are deniod. ,
Tho "burden of proof" fs upon tho alion; not upon tho ~
Governnent. The United States, not the alion, is legally ~~
entitled to the bonofit of ali doubte. Tho “finol doternina-
tion of facts" is entrusted to administrative officors, not ore
ro £0 a jury, Administrative officors are "not obligod -to boliove® eel
{ tho tostinony of an alion in his own bohaif, and "nore orror, |: 5
oven if it consists in finding an essential fact without - ~-:
wr we wee
ever erent ay var oaans
$ adequate mupport ing evidence, is not n donial of duo procoas
el of law" in those alion exclusion on sos. (Seo docision by ;
r)__¥r.dustice Bra ndeis in Tisi v,T04;264 U.5 1345 nlao Ni shusura
Ti; Ekiu v.U.8.,142 0.8.651,660). . :
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It is not nocossary to provo the alion guilty of any criminal ty “
or othor offenso, or of any ovort act. It is onough if his —
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- deliofs, opinions or affilintiona show him to be among any one <
t of the Soveral classes of alfons that "shall be oxcluded - sone
fron admission into tho United Statos.
An: 9xécutive officor, moroover, "ge-not dotted to odsorv ri
tho strict rulos of ovidence onforcod by Judioial tritunais' A
in oxpluding or doporting-alions. (Sco Kjar.y.Doak,7th U.S. ae
Cireult Court ‘of Apponie, dooitod Set JA, ISGHOqhSH)« «a EB
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* "In, qgiery casg whorw mn-altonsia, excyudod" tho -deet Sian of, -
adninteteativo attics "47 wagers to i gtrrission of quch aNh te
alien, shali bo finale. (Sco OF Stat .757-738). “*.6,'.“
‘ Congreas has been diligmt tnostablishing barriors against «. . *
the ontry of undcsirablo alions. -It ‘his ontrustod tho koys of _
our gatos to two soparato acts of officials, oithor of which — =
‘may decline to opon thon---tho consular officers of tho Stato
Dopartmont, who nay refuso visas, and tho immigration Anspoctora _....
of the Labor Dopartnent, who may rofuso admission notwithstand- ~~:
tho_alien's possession of a yisa. Finally, Congresa has nado: -
It a folony for any porson knoringly to assist or pornit tho ~
classes of alions oxcludod by the atatutcs horo Ti bse to enter
the Unitod States. (Sec.165,Titic 8, U.S.Codo)}. : :
Having thus ostablishod tho logal fact that ALBERT EINSTEIN ~ cx!
4s sooking a high privilege; that tho UNITED STATES, not Albort .
Einstoin, is ontitlod to tho toncfit of all doubts fporticulerly
of 212 loyal officials in tho onploy of the Governnent of the
Unitod 8tatos) tho following monorandun of ovidonco is sub-
nittod as sufficicnt, whon confirmed by referonce to the oe
iblished docuncnts citod, to sustainte tho charges horotofore
‘dled, and to requiro that any passport visa to Albort Einstein
+ bo refused or rovokod. mys : . “Tt
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