Mr. Chairman. the amount requested of tie Budget Bureau by the Department of Immigration for the entire expenditures under this title. regulating immigration. including the whole subject. you will find on page 110. beginning on line 5. and all of page 111. was $7.800.000. The committee has recommended to the House $7.110.000. of which $1.150.000 shall be available only for coast and land border patrol. My amendment. which has to change the figures in two places. calls for an addition of $500.000. so that the $7.110.000 sum would read "$7.610.000. of which $1.955.000 shall be available only for coast and land patrol." In other words. the antendmaent proposes in addition for the enforcement of the immlgration law of $500.000. of which $200.000 shall be for the enlargement of the border patrol. Gentlemen. you would be very much interested to know what the border patrol has done. We can not give all the proposed additional money to the border patrol. because the patrohnea are policemen and not warrant officers. and whenever they make arrests other officers are required to carry out the next steps. But in the last year. even though at tinmes they had to mark time. they examined 1.250.000 vehicle passengers and a large number of pedestrians. and 492.000 automobiles. and so on. they apprehended 19.322 persons. captured 12.000 smuggled aliens. and more important than all that they captured 832 smugglers of aliens. They captured 786 automobiles and a number of boats and other vehicles of traitsportation. which they had to turn over to the various other agenciesprohibition. narcotic. agricultural. justice. and so forth.
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