Speech #740144023

This is a very important resolution with respect to the smuggling of aliens into the United States. The Committee on Immigration and Naturalization has had before it for the last 3 or 4 years a number of complaints about organized smuggling groups and the highly elusive methods they use by which aliens are smuggled into this country. particularly along the Mexican border. For the last 2 or 3 years from across the Mexican border there has been thrown over here 2.400 Chinamen. and we have had to deport them. Twentytwo agents have been shot in cold blood because there are certain regulations. The Committee on Immigration and Naturalization wants to make this investigation for the purpose of discovering. from actual study of conditions in the field. some way of putting some teeth into the law to prevent smuggling of aliens into the United States across our land and water boundaries and qver the Mexican border. I submit to my friend from Texas that it is a very worthy investigation. which the resolution proposes being made by a special committee appointed by the Speaker from among the membership of the Immigration and Naturalization Committee.