Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee. if this amendment shall prevail it will add $100.000 to the lump sum for the enforcement of all of the immigration laws in detail. deportation. and so on. covered in the page and a half of the bill just read. If that should be agreed to. I shall then offer an amendment in the next line striking out "$1.68.440" and insert in lieu thereof "$1.968.440." so that the $100.000 shall be for the coast and land border patrol for immigration purposes. I do not care to take the time of the committee to show the need for that. Let me say. however. that the whole Labor Department now comes within about $1.000.000 or so of being supported by the income from immigration and naturalization activity. At one time the whole Immigration Service was more than selfsupporting. but the restriction of immigration and the setting up of the immigration border patrol changed the situation. The whole appropriation in Title IV. Department of Labor. is about $12.000.000 plus. The amount in this bill for the whole immigration section of the Department of Labor is proposed to be $8.850.000 for the next fiscal year. Immigration activities are more than threefourths of the cost of theepartment. I spoke of the income. I desire to call attention to this socalled registry. which is a registry of those who lived here prior to June 3. 1921. and who make application. is getting under way slowly.
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