One way is the legitimate way through agreements with the Mexican Government which have certain safeguards regarding the return of the labor to Mexico. the wages that are paid. and other types of safeguards. I think every Member of the House can sustain that method. The other method of getting this labor Is by condoning the illegal entry of immigrants into this country. That is exactly what is happening on this wetback situation on the border of California and on the border of Texas. These people come across to get work because they can get higher wages. and if they come across under legal agreements. they are protected. If they do not come across under legal agreement. then it is left up to the beneficence of the employer as to whether they are treated right or not. Many of them are treated right. and I must confess that many of them are treated wrong. Any cut in appropriations to the Immigration and Naturalization Service in patrolling these hundreds of miles of border is a condoning of illegal entry of aliens into this country. and this particular cut. in the name of economy. is to further cripple the return of wetbacks from this country. illegally entered aliens. back to their point of origin. or south of their point of origin. Now. it is not silly. and it is not similar to the reference to people crossing the border of Maryland or Virginia. to send these people back across the border several hundred miles. Otherwise the experience is that the officials take them across one day and they come back across the following night. because it is an impossibility to patrol the unfenced and practically unguarded borders of Mexico and Texas. with their limited personnel of the border guards. From the standpoint of necessity therefore. the Immigration and Naturalization people are using these planes to drop them several hundred miles south of the border so that they will not have to catch the same wetbacks the following night. Mr. Chairman.
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