Both statements are correct. depending upon the point. from which one starts. Let me make a statement on that. so that we can all get it. The Department of Labor thinks there are actually more than 50.000 people who could and should be deported. The department thinks that there are in the United States 250.000 deportable persons. But neither the authorities in the department nor anyone else contends that we can go about deporting any such number as 250.000 people or any considerable proportion of them. Of those 250.000 we have quite a large number who have illegally entered but who under certain limitations of the statute are held to be lawfully here. Now. rather than discuss a possible deportation of 250.000. which number the machinery of the Government could not deport or even locate. next note the fact that there are actually coming out of the Jails and asylums 50.000 persons. half of them crininals. who are either ready or soon will be ready to be deported. I have telegraphed today to the immigration commissioners in the various districts and the State officials to furnish me with figures in the next few days of deportable convict aliens coming out of the Jails who should be deported. In my opinion. you will find fully a thousand who ought to go this month.
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