The board of directors of the National District Attorneys Association at its midwinter meeting here last week unanimously adopted a resolution urging the United States government to act promptly in prosecuting the some 50 alleged Nazi war criminals living in the U.S. “The American people are entitled to the assurance, more than 30 years after the end of the Second World War, that this nation has not become a haven for persons who participated in these crimes,” the resolution stressed.
The district attorneys urged that the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service “act diligently and expeditiously to resolve these cases”; that the INS “accelerate the pace of its investigation to enable an expeditious resolution of these cases”; that the State Department “cooperate fully” with INS in seeking evidence from foreign sources, and that Congress “act on legislation to give the Immigration and Naturalization Service clear authority to seek the deportation of aliens who engaged in the persecution of others for the Nazis.”
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