Mr. Chairman. the adoption of this amendment would mean that we are merely restating existing law. The purpose of this language is to permit the border patrol and the Immigration and Naturalization Service to patrol those vast areas. not any dwelling houses. not any buildings. for the purpose of apprehending people who are being surreptitiously brought across the border at points other than the established border crossings. The adoption of this language would make it absolutely impossible for the immigration people to patrol our borders. It is indeed unfortunate. and I repeat what I said yesterday. that we should consider this as being only a wetback bill.- It is not anything of the sort. Those of us along the Atlantic seabord. it seems to me. are on one side trying to get rid of aliens illegally in the United States. and there are other people here who want to keep them. I should think that the gentleman from California would consider the fact that this is a law now under consideration applying to all parts of the United States. As far as this border patrol phase is concerned. there are hundreds and thousands of miles along the borders between the United States and Mexico and the United States and Canada. Now if our border patrol would not have the right to pass freely over that open territory in order to attempt to apprehend these people. then it certainly seems to me that we are not doing. our full duty toward aiding the properly constituted officers to enforce the law. Mr. Chairman.
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