Mr. President. I should like to be permitted to continue briefly on the subject. of immigration and the registration of Mliens. There is now on foot an agitation to open wider our gates to refugees from various lands where the people are suffering from dictatorships. We. as trustees for the American people. cannot countenance breaking down the existing immigration barriers. We are experiencing highpressure propaganda to fill some particular quota from some country or another. when humanity demands that we should send back the aliens now here who are being supported by public funds. They should be returned to their homelands. Furthermore. we have no effective legislative barrier against the admission of aliens from various countries of North and South America. as has been mentioned by one of my colleagues. At this time permit me to return to the figures regarding illegal entries. The last report of the Commissioner of Immigration says thatIt is. of course. impossible to determine accurately the number of aliens who have entered the country illegally. but the best available estimates are that the number of such aliens now subject to deportation. if detected. Is less than a hundred thousand. Gentlemen of the Senate. notwithstanding the estimate of the Commissioner of Immigration. only a few days ago an official in one of our large cities in advocacy of a local registration measure estimated the illegal entrants in his locality alone to be about 300.000. The contrasting figures prove that there is no definite available information on this subject.. The time has come for us to act.
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