His special message on the transfer is expected to be sent to Congress during the day. The President said yesterday the need for such a transfer has been made more evident by the present war emergency. The Immigration Service is charged with patroling boundaries to prevent Illegal entry of aliens and with catching aliens who have entered illegally. It employs 1.000 inspectors and more than 800 patrolmen who guard the Canadian and Mexican borders. Mr. President. I desire in passing to make a brief comment. It is my recollection. but I do not speak with certainty. that recently the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Labor Department was provided the opportunity before a committee of Congress to make request for additional funds for patrolmen to guard the borders to the north and to the south. and the ports on the Atlantic and on the Pacific. but. as a matter of fact. instead of that division of the Labor Department making request for additional funds with which to guard well our borders. it permitted a decrease in the appropriation to be made. which actually lessened the number of field men to the extent of about 30. The Immigration and Naturalization Service had the opportunity. so I am informed. to obtain more money with which to provide more guardsmen. more borderpatrol men. to keep out members of the "fifth column" who are seeping into this country illegally by day and by night. week after week. and month after month. and increasing the number of Trojan horses in the green pastures of Americaall because we are not guarding well our borders. I say that instead of having 1.000 men to patrol the borders. we should have 5.000. Mr.
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Generalization that undocumented immigrants are members of the 'fifth column' seeping into the country.