Acting Collector. The proposed Hudson bill would give much more extensive authority to interfere with the movements of innocent citizens than under existing lawthat is the covert and furtive purpose of the bill. If the border patrol consisted of tactful. courteous. honest. intelligent agents and inspectors a reign of terror might be mitigated. but Michiganders know from bitter experience that too many of these enforcement officers are brutal. officious. overbearing. and inclined to get drunk on duty and prone to graft as much as possible. Innocent citizens have been fired upon and some have been murdered. The tale of brutality and graft is too long to recite here. but I am inserting in the REORD an official report of the United States Civil Service Commission under date of April 8. 1930. on the activities of some borderpatrol officers whom I had investigated.
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Border patrol officers are brutal, officious, overbearing, inclined to get drunk on duty and prone to graft.