Speech #760210769

C. camps. and providing like militarytraining opportunity for the 300.000 young men who are now in those camps. Instead of putting them all in the ranks in uniform. with guns on their shoulders. for the purpose of training to make them ready for the attack to come from without. I say that a large portion of the military of our country today should be placed along the borders of Canada and Mexico. because anyone who knows anything about the immigration situation is aware that aliens are surreptitiously coming into our country from the north and from the south. across the borders. in violation of our law. At the same time we are preparing to vote $1.497.000.000. we should interest ourselves in guarding against the enemy within. the Trojan horse. the "fifth column." the alien enemies that are here now. I have in my hand a clipping headedCalifornia officers form anti-"flfthcolumn" group. This situation has been poorly dealt with by the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Labor. I am reminded to make this statement because of the very fine contribution to the discussion that was so generously made by my distinguished and beloved friend. the Senator from Arizona . a great statesman and patriot. who as we all know. is interested 100 percent in the American people. Mr. President. a former Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization stated before a committee holding public hearings that there are 20.000 alien criminals in the United States today. They should long since have been deported. We treat aliens with more care and more consideration than do the peoples of any other nation upon the face of the earth. If there are alien criminals in the United States they should be forthwith deported. and we should clean house now for the protection of the American people. so that they may be protected from within. for it is from some near our feet and at our side and in our homes that we shall suffer in case we are unfortunately sucked into this war. Mr. President. the American people everywhere are aware -of the peril which confronts them.