Speech #670195608

Husband. hearings. Dec. 19. p. 208.) The admission of all these and subsequent arrivals at these and all other ports on December 24 and 25 were covered by the order of admission. which I shall read you soon. Yet in the weekly report of the Commissioner General of Immigration the number of excess quota admissions was increased only 141. from December 21 to December 31. covering that very time. The number reported up to and including December 21 was 1.456. and up to and including December 31. 1.597. On Decemnber 24 and 25 all these new admissions were nmade. Yet the report of such admissions up to and including December 31 was only 141. The majority report says that these admissions numbered only 906. That is not correct. but it is more than six times the increase shown by the report of the Commissioner General of Immigration. Then the increases ran along at about the normal rate which had characterized these admissions before Christmas. Each report stating: Total excesses up to and including January 4. up to and including .anuary 18. up to and including January 25. up to and including The total increase from December 31 to February 8 was 31.3. aboutthe normal rate of increase.