Speech #700009499

Perhaps the system might then work even faster. I do not want to get clear aside from my subject. I wish the Members would read the short hearing on immigration in one of the pamphlets of the Immigration Committee. which pamphlet is not even entitled "Department of Labor." This subcommittee handles the appropriations for the State Department. the Department of Justice. the Department of Commerce. and the Department of Laborfour great departmentsand the hearings this time have been cut up so that the hearings on the appropriations for the Department of Labor are separate. You will find in this pamphlet all the information that was given in the way of questions and answers with respect to appropriations for the Labor Department. and I hardly need remind you that the major part of the Department of Labor is the Immigration Service. You will find in here that the committee has made an increase in the matter of the deportation appropriation of $200.000. The deportations for the last fiscal year were about 14.000. and this the department points to with pride. The number has gone up 1.000 over the previous year. and how? Foui thousand persons were pushed back over the line into Mexico and 3.000 were pushed back over the line into Canada. This accounts for 7.000 of the deportations and the cost of pushing them back is very little. It is all averaged. however. The cost of pushing back one Mexican across the line and the cost of sending an offending Chinaman at $300 back to his home place In China. which is mandatory under the law. is averaged. so that the cost of deportation is made to be about $87 per person. but when you see how the proportion works out it will remind you of the story of our former colleague. now Senator. ToM HFIAN. about the 5050 horseandrabbit pie. So that even the additional money given for deportations will not do the work that the present laws call upon them to do. Members of the department itself. when called only yesterday for hearings before the Immigration Committee. of which I have the honor to be chairman. stated that for a good part of the last fiscal year they had to merely mark time with regard to deportations and deport the minimum of the most necessary cases. because they had not the money to pay the transportation of the persons to be deported. and this ery fiscal year they are marking time. Shortage of funds causes them to deport principally just those thrown at them from the prison doors at the expiration of their sentences and a few .others that are thrust upon them. They have no neans with which to go out and pick up persons whom they know to be subject to deportation.