We thought it to :the best interests of the United States to do it. and if I may in a moment give the reason as applied to Canada. we have there a land border nearly 3.000 miles long tlirough wild country. It is a physical impossibility to guard it. On the other hand we have an excellent working agreement with Canada by which she permits us to keep our immigration inspectors in her ports. and It is very much easier to stop undesirables at Halifax and Montreal than it is to guard the whole of this 3.000 miles to keep them from crossing an imaginlry line. It is purely selfish. We are not catering to Canada in the least. We are doing it because it is the cheapest and the best practical way to enforce our immigration law. I agree with the Senator in what lie says regarding the overdose of Mexican immigration that we have been receiving. We are trying to work out some practical way to stop it. but we do not want to make the futile gesture of prohibiting it and them having Mexicans wading across the Rio Grande every time it gets dark. Our thought is not different from that of the Senator.
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