Speech #700011519

The testimony before our committee showed that Judge Cotillo was himself a deciding factor in the solution of that matter when he voted and placed himself on the side of America. We are trying in our committee very hard to follow suggestions made several years ago. and codify and bring into one code all tile matters that should go into that code. One will be a naturalization bill and another will be a revised immigration bill. If we can make a complete revision we may be able to correct certain conditions that exist and which cause much complaint. We must do it all at once. We can not do it one part at a time. The subjects are too controversial to be lnDdied by small and separate bills. The hearings on deportation show that the Assistant Secretary of Labor thinks that with the money available they will be able only to scratch the flatter of deportations on the surface. I shall ask for an increase of $500.000 in the lump sum for the enforcement of the immigration laws. and that a portion of that fund be allocatedto the border patrol. I am convinced that prevention is most to be desired and is real economy In the long run. Soon our committee will be confronted with the great problem of placing restrictions on the immigration from the LatinAmerican Republics21 Republics. Allied to that will be restrictions to the countries north of us. This matter of deportation is not easy. Two sovereign countries must be parties to every deportation. Men whom you pick up to send out of the country are not always received by their home nation on the other side. This Government is helpless to compel a man to sign a passport.