Chairman. it is very seldom I try to increase an item in an appropriation bill. but I am doing so at this time for economys sake. I maintain that it is a great deal cheaper to keep these aliens out than it is to go through all the various steps necessary to deport them after they get in. and I defy anybody to refute this statement. As I understand. in the next appropriation bill for the Labor Department they are going to ask for some $600.000 additional for the purpose of deportation. On the other hand. if things have come to such a pass that we are willing to give every man in every department of the Government an additional 30 days furlough I am perfectly willing that it should be applied to immigration officers. but it is absolutely unfair. and no one has ever said a word to justify it. to ask these men to take an additional furlough. that no other man in the employ of the Government is asked to take at the present time. Furthermore. with the restricted immigration that we are trying to put into effect at the present time there is a great deal more incentive for these aliens to try to get into this country than there was in normal times. and for this reason alone we should not in any way do anything that will decrease the force along the borders that are keeping these undesirable people out.
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