Yes. I know you and all your prohibitionists are just anxious to get hold of the $24.000.000. and. if possible. more. so that you can provide for more lucrative jobs for the professional prohibitionist fellows. The gentleman wanted to know the number of aliens that are on the list that might be deported. and what proportion of them had been deported. I have to repeat that the number who have been deported was a little over 11.000. and I believe that under the present law the number will not be increased. although I am ready to vote for any additional appropriation that may be n.ecessary. Right in connection with this. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. let me call your attention to one thing: I observe that yesterday the Secretary of the Treasury agreed to an additional appropriation for the Coast Guard and for our border patrol. I have advocated for years that the service should be unified. Why should we have a thousand or twelve hundred immigration inspectors at $2.000 each and other inspectors as well doing work in the same section of our country. and doing nearly the same work? We could easily save millions of dollars and secure a better enforcement of the law on our borders and at the same time secure much better and more eflicient service if the inspection force were unified. and for that reason I hope you gentlemen on the Committee on Appropriations and you other men of influence will be able to bring home to the Secretary of the Treasury that information that should have been his that this department should be unified. We would be able to secure thereby fin inspection and examination and control of our border lines without the additional expenditure of $2.000.000 or $5.000.000.
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