Speech #770034211

And. my colleagues. that machinery is expensive if it is to be efficacious. I only wish that the membership of the House would make it a point to visit the Federal Bureau of Investigation in order that they may become personally acquainted with not only one of the most efficient but one of the most humanly interesting phases of our entire governmental activity. Immigration and Naturalization Service The Immigration and Naturalization Service under the Presidents reorganization plan was transferred to the Department of Justice from the Department of Labor. This Bureau was formerly with this committee when it had as the ranking member on the Democratic. side our colleague the gentleman from Georgia . Some years ago the Department of Labor was taken from this committee. and so for the new members of the committee this is the first time this agency comes before them. The estimate as submitted in the Budget calls for additional increase over the amount available for the current year of $3.865.585. One thousand three hundred and fiftyfour additional employees are proposed for this agency. They will be employed not only in the regular functions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service but will also be employed on duties incident to the recent alien registration work. Very thorough hearings were given the proposal of this agency. and the committee has decided upon an amount of $15.800.000. which is a reduction of $298.965 under the Budget estimate. It is proposed in the language of the bill that $200.000 of the appropriation be set aside for the employment of personnel to be exempted from the civilservice laws and regulations. There are approximately 5.000.000 questionnaires awaiting consideration. This division is 10 months in arrears in the handling of applications for naturalization. The appropriation will assist in this matter to bring the naturalization work to date. The committee was impressed with the request that a small amount of the funds be permitted for use for a naturalization survey to improve the method of handling this activity. One of the major problems confronting the Service is the fact that at the present time there are approximately 4.200 cases where warrants of deportation have been issued and where for various reasons it is impossible to deport the aliens. Of this total of nondeportable deportees something less than half cannot be deported because of the present conditions in Europe. Of this 50 percent a half are criminal aliens. The problem is a most important and pressing one and the committee expresses the hope that some legislation can be adopted by the Congress that will effect a fair solution to the difficulty. It is possible at this time to make some preliminary conclusions from the mass of data gathered in connection with alien registration and one of the findings is that approximately 40 percent of the aliens that registered have taken some step toward attaining citizenship. while 5 percent were ineligible for citizenship for one reason or another. particularly on account of not having become of sufficient age to exercise the right. Border patrol It appears that the patrol service is confronted with the fact that they are losing many of their best and experienced officers because of other agencies of the Government offering a greater salary inducement and taking them by way of transfer. In the opinion of the committee. this problem of intergovernmental service transfers should be given immediate study with the view of preventing the loss of people to the services in which they have been trained at Government expense to be effective units of production. This cheap chiseling among the different services for employees is true in a great many more instances than the one to which I have just referred.