Speech #710281708

Mr. President. the Senator from Utah knows that it costs more to restrict immigration. to keep immigrants out. than it does to allow them to come in. and the restrictions that we have imposed on immigrants coming in. and the necessity of our trying to enforce those restrictions. increase very naturally the expense of administration. While this bill has been increased by $2.451.993. a little over $800.000 of that is represented by one item. which is brought up to the Budget estimate. namely. the item providing for the construction of buildings abroad under the $10.000.000 authorization made by act of Congress some years ago. Then $500.000 are added for the border patrol. and about $600.000 to provide salary increases under the salary system which the Senate is following. So. outside of those three items the Senate has not made any very material increase in the bill. As I have said. the $800.000 additional for buildings abroad grows out of the fact that plans and specifications for such buildings are in such shape that the department and the Budget Bureau estimate that $2.000.000 can very properly be expended during the next fiscal year in carrying on that construction work. As to the border patrol. facts were pointed out showing the necessity of increasing it. Those facts really indicated that. in order to make the border patrol effective. we ought to make a larger increase than we have made. but the committee thought that $500.000 above the Budget estimate was enough for us to allow at this time.