Nogales is destined to be a port that will. in my judgment. within a few years after the unfortunate conditions now existing in Mexico have been somewhat modified. collect more than a million dollars a year in customs duties. it would be ridiculous to erect a $110.000 building there. We ought to have not only the customhouse. but in addition to what the Treasury Department has said. we should have some place for the detention of the many people who are arrested there. who come across the line against our laws. They are now taken long distances. at great expense. and tried and sent back to the place where arrested. when there should be a provision on the very border where these matters could be attended to and these immigrants heard and admitted or rejected. as the case may be. at more convenience and less expense to the United States. Besides. in the examination of our customs imports there. when our people come in from Mexico their baggage is exposed to the weather out on the platform of a railroad depot or shoved into dirty and overcrowded and disgraceful quarters. I hope the Senate will at least let the amount go in the bill is recommended in the letter just read from the desk.
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