Speech #760177066

I rise in opposition to the amendment. I think the interrogatories of the gentleman from Wisconsin have somewhat clarified this matter. The committee not only made no reduction in the Budget estimates for personnel for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. but it took approximately $128.000 which had been placed in the estimates by the Bureau of the Budget for administrative promotions. and used that money to provide for 46 border patrolmen in addition to those which had been estimated for by the Budget. bringing the border patrol back to Its present strength for the next fiscal year. and to provide for 13 additional field immigration inspectors in addition to those which had been estimated for by the Budget. So that the committee has not only not cut the Budget. but it has gone over the Budget in effect. in making provision for these increases. If you will examine the report of the committee I think you will find an equally strong statement to that which has been made by the gentleman from New York as to the necessity for continuing this service unimpaired.