Speech #750146770

We of the United States are entitled to know who the citizens of the United States are. the people of the United States are entitled to know who their potential enemies are in case war is declared. If war were declared against the United States tomorrow. or if the United States declared war against any nation on earth. I say unhesitatlngly that we would have in our midst 7.000.000 enemies. 7.000.000 aliens. 7.000.000 foreigners. and all we could do would be to put them down as the enemies of the United States Government. because if they had been friendly to the United States Government they would have become naturalized. Hundreds of thousands of these aliens are here illegally. They came into this country on students visas. came here saying they were coming to study. that they wanted to be students. that they would go back in 6 months. The 6 months are up. and they are lost in the crowd. Hundreds of thousands have come in across the Rio Grande from the south. hundreds upon hundreds of thousands have walked across the border on the north. from Canada. What we need is a great border patrol. what we need is a checkup to determine how many aliens there are in this country. who they are. what they are doing here. how long they have been here. and how long they expect to stay. or let them become American citizens if they are people of good character. If we should have war with any country in the world the danger would be from those who would be boring from within. and not from the enemy who would be attacking from without. I. therefore. say with ample reason that. as things stand today. there is no use in spending billions upon billions of dollars in building a Navy. constructing submarines to ply beneath the waters of the Atlantic. the Pacific. or the Gulf of Mexico. there is no use expending millions on millions of dollars. piling millions into billions. constructing an air force. or an army. or equipping the marines unless we are prepared to protect ourselves from within. where the danger lies. Would any other country on earth permit the conditions we allow here? In France the police. the military. the War Department. have their fingers on every foreigner. every alien. who is in France today. I am ashamed to have to stand here and admit that we have the laxest immigration laws on earth. I read the other day in a newspaper that there are over 6.000.000 out of employment in the United States now. but. Mr.