Word: mccarranism
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...Supreme Court ruled that Congress had no power to strip a person of citizenship: he had to renounce it voluntarily. But last month the court backed away from the implications of that decision. By a vote of 5 to 4, it ruled that a key section of the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act is constitutional. That section terminates the U.S. citizenship of a foreign-born child of an American parent unless the child lives in the U.S. for five consecutive years between the ages...
Ironically all these safeguards of the American police state leave no good reason for the infamous McCarran Act, a legal dragnet for jailing radicals and communists without trial. Title II of this "emergency detention law," introduced by liberal Senators like Paul Douglas in 1950, allows the government to apprehend and detain anyone suspected of committing or conspiring to commit espionage or sabotage during national emergencies. But such an emergency cannot be declared unless there is war or "an insurrection in aid of a foreign enemy." The attempt to shut down Washington last Monday might have qualified here...
...Berrigan case, the FBI has demonstrated that blanket charges of "conspiracy" can do all the dirty work of the McCarran Act without forcing the President to declare an embarrassing "state of insurrection." If anything, the blunt language of that law has become a liability. Mr. Kleindienst now recommends that Congress repeal Title II of the Act because such action would "allay the fears and suspicions-unfounded as they may be-of many of our citizens...
...consul gave no reason for the denial; the letter confirming the denial simply cited the State Department's authority under the McCarran Act to exclude aliens because of their "unapproved" political beliefs or associations...
...McCarran Act had been waived twice before during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations to allow Mandel entry into the country...