President. let me say to the distinguished Senator from Illinois that I never have read the New Yorker. I was trying to draw an analogy in this respect: We have had wetbacks for so long that our employers have to be educated from the first grade up. in regard to the wetback problem. and we cannot start the employers on a college course in that subject until they have had education in the lower grades. Although last year I was just as ambitious and just as buoyant as was the Senator from Illinois in supporting his proposals in regard to this matter. at the same time I think we must handle it according to the suggestion of the West Virginia farmer. namely. "by the littles." and must not begin to punish Americans for things about which our predecessors in Congress were lax. and in regard to which those of us who serve in Congress are in part responsible because of our failure to provide the Immigration Service with appropriations sufficiently large to permit the employment of adequate personnel to patrol the border. My friend. the Senator from Texas. knows. as I used to know. the number of Immigration Service inspectors we maintain on the Mexican border. So we must raise our sights in regard to the proper number of immigration inspectors and we must try to realize the present situation as it is. and must try to improve it a little at a time.
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