About a year ago the committee felt there was entirely too much smuggling of aliens into this country and we desired to know something about it. We also wanted to know something about the rules and regulations with a view to seeing whether a uniform policy of administration of the law could not be worked out. and the committee at that time went on record unanimously. Republicans and Democrats joining. :asking the Committee on Rules for a rule authorizing the Committee on Immigration to study the whole question of immigration and the problem of the border patrol. In this connection let me call attention to the fact that although we have more than 9.000 miles of border. only approximately 240 officers protect this vast extended area. on the Mexican and Canadian sides. In other words. if we lined up our enforcement officers to cover the border they would be about 5 miles apart.
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