Speech #770194860

I have nothing against the Census Bureau. but because of the urgency of the situation neither I nor the committee was ready to add more burdens to the Census Bureau or ask for more money to create another bureau within a bureau which has only the right to take the census of the people of the country every 10 years. The Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Department of Justice are working together and they in turn are also working with the Census Bureau. If they want additional proof they may check in the Census Bureau. But in the final analysis the Immigration Department and the Department of Justice have the machinery now. They not only may take the word of the Census. but they can have some other documentary evidence laid down to establish the fact a man was born here. so that when a certificate is issued which makes it prima facie proof of his birth In this country. the employer will have to take it at face value. That is a different situation.