President. the same argument was applied when we tried to reduce the appropriation for customs officers. by a cut in the Treasury Department budget. What did the Treasury do? They notified the border patrol in every State in the Union that they wern going to lay off employees in the border patrol. In came telegrams and telephone calls. "What are you going to do in Congressopen the border? We will have no more patrol. Are you going to open the border to all kinds of smuggling?" * They did notseem to comprehend that they could discharge some other employees. and the evidence indicated that they had on the pay roll some 8 or 10 men in the upper brackets who were not doing a tap of work. and who could have retired long before. some of them 80 years of age. They never thought of taking any of those employees off the pay roll. No. they had to take off the border patrol. so that there could be smuggling across every border in the United States.
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