Mr. Chairman. I wish to read briefly a statement submitted to me by the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. That language of the amendment is not mine. It is language submitted by the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. Accompanying the suggested amendment. they wrote to me as follows: There is an urgent and immediate need by the Immigration and Naturalization Service for a detention camp at Brownsville. Tex.. for the assembling and processing for removal to Mexico of Mexican aliens who have entered the United States illegally. Hundreds of these illegal entrants are being apprehended by the border patrol daily. and the Immigration and Naturalization Service anticipates that beginning in July illegal entries in the Lower Rio Grande Valley area will increase by tens of thousands. As the Service does not have an adequate detention facility. it can neither properly carry out its duty under the immigration laws nor give effect to the requirement of the international agreement with Mexico that Mexican nationals who are in the United States illegally be apprehended and removed to Mexico. Additional detention facilities are also required for the same purposes in the State of California. In a word. all this does is to allow the Immigration Service to erect detention camps at various important places along the border so as to facilitate the removal of all those aliens who came in illegally and that they are able to detect. It does no more than that. and I do hope that those who are interested in this bill will not object to the amendment.
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