Mr. Chairman. this resolution calls for the transfer of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice. Taking this activity away from the Secretary of Labor. Madam Perkins. is something that should have been done many years ago. As to the kind of setup that we are going to have afterward I have this to say: Many of us are going to vote for this resolution today. not because we believe it is the right thing to do from the standpoint of a logical setup of the Government. because it manifestly is not. The Immigration Service is an administrative agency and should be kept so. The Department of Justice is a lawenforcement agency and should be kept so. but we are going to vote for this reorganization plan because the President has not the patriotism or the courage to remove the Secretary of Labor. a notorious incompetent and one who for the last 7 years has steadily and steadfastly failed and refused to enforce the immigration law and continuously admitted and kept here those who were not entitled to stay. It is the hope of those who are voting for the resolution that Mr. Jackson. the Attorney General. will do a better job. that he will either force Mr. Houghteling. the Commissioner of Immigration. to aboutface on the position that he has followed under Mme. Perkins or will substitute for him an aggressive American. America today is up against a serious proposition.
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