Speech #760201777

Let me ask the Senator about a matter which has been brought to my attention a number of times. I am not certain of the facts. and therefore I inquire in order to inform myself. I know of a number of cases of persons coming into the United States from Canada who have subsequently been taken into custody by immigration officials and returned to Canada because they did not meet the requirements for admission into the United States. If a Canadian or a Mexican or a Costa Rican or a Brazilian may enter the United States freely without restrictions of any kind. how does it happen that a citizen of Canada. for instance. who enters the United States will be subsequently taken into custody and sent back to Canada? I will say frankly to the Senator from North Carolina that I have not understood that the barriers are clear down and that 10.000.000 Mexicans may come into the United States if they merely elect to come across the border.