Speech #720184810

I do not want to see their wages cut. any of them. and after a while perhaps even the gentleman from Wisconsin will realize. as well as private industry following out the principles of the Government. that you can not buy clothing if you have not the money. and you can not buy anything if your wages are cut to the extent that everyone is going to be laid off and everyone is going to be unemployed. In reference to the matter now before the House. I do not see any justice in penalizing these employees of the immigration border patrol or of the Immigration Service when none of the other Government employees are to be penalized in the same manner. In the case of some of the members of the Immigration Service. after they have worked for years and years they get paid the stupendous sum of $3.000 to support their families. When they reach this amount they get four days a week or five days a week. and the gentleman from Wisconsin did not tell you that they work many. many hours overtime and get not one cent for it. Their work is also difficult and requires tact and courage. and the lone rider who is riding along the hundreds of miles of the TexasMexico border has to have courage. grit. tact. ability. and endurance. and believe me. he earns his $3.000 after he has been waiting years to get it.