We have no adequate enforcement law. I contend. therefore. that the law will not be enforced. except at tremendous expense. As I was about to point out. when I was Secretary of Labor. it was necessary to establish a border patrol on the Canadian and Mexican borders. We had to establish new officers under the Immigration Service in every port of this country. Practically all appointees are under the civil service. It was necessary to make new districts. We were confronted With a disorganized force with which to enforce restrictedimmigration law. Mr. President. this law cannot be enforced with a border patrol of five or six hundred men. If I remember correctlyand I am speaking from memorythere was one patrolman to every 400 miles. As I have already pointed out. our idea was to have the alien. after he had been here a year. go with his passport to the county clerk or the postmaster or someone designated by the Commissioner General of Immigration. with the approval of the Secretary of Labor. and to pay a small part of his fee. $1. on enrollment day. and that dollar would have paid the running expenses of the Immigration and Naturalization Bureaus. Mr. President.
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