The Senate and the House have been in the past exceedingly generous in making appropriations to the Department of Labor. I have been in entire sympathy with the action of Congress in so doing. At the last session of Congress we appropriated millions of dollars for the Labor Department. a considerable portion of which was to be used in guarding our borders and in securing the deportation of aliens who were ineligible to citizenship. and who ought not to be in the United States. Unfortunately. the present Secretary and some of his subordinates have misconceived their duty. have not understood the provisions of the Constitution of the United States which were so eloquently referred to a moment ago by the able Senator from Arizona and have gone out with dragnets and arrested and herded into corrals and into jails and into places of confinement hundreds of American citizens. The appropriation which we made has not been exhausted.
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