Tom C. Clark

“ The result is that an alien who has been a member of the Communist Party in the United States is deportable only if 'at the time of last entering the United States, or * * * at any time thereafter,' he was a member. ”

“ Petitioner here makes the converse argument that the word 'entering' should be modified to read 'last entering.' I would not so amend the statute in disregard of the long and uniform judicial, legislative, and administrative history whereby 'entry' has acquired a definitive, technical gloss, to wit, its ordinary meaning and nothing more or less. ”

“ In enacting § 22 of the Act of 1950, the Congress stated, 'The purpose * * * is to strengthen the provisions of existing law with respect to the exclusion and deportation of subversive aliens.' S.Rep. ”