It is a problem in the State of Minnesota. in the State of Ohio. and in the State of Illinois. We are picking up literally hundreds of illegal entrants. In the city of Chicago hundreds of them have been picked up and held for deportation proceedings. The only way the. can be adequately and quickly deported and gotten back to the country where they belong is through the airlift service. If we want this program to work we must maintain the airlift operation. Even with the border patrol as good as it isand we could put on another thousand officersit will never stop this invasion unless it is made clear to the wetbacks that the minute they are picked up they will be deported. When they are deported by means of the airlift operation they cannot immediately get back on a freight train and return to the United States in equal numbers. No one can substantiate the claim that they are returning to the United States in equal numbers. The evidence before the committee showed that the airlift operation augmented and supplemented the effectiveness of the immigration program. It was proved quite conclusively that with the airlift. a limited number of border patrol officers can do a good job. Without the airlift. we have the border patrol officers playing "ring around the rosy" with illegal entrants. The border patrol officers take them across the bridge and deposit them at the other end of the bridge. and almost immediately they come back across the river. I should like to modify the Senators amendment. if I may be permitted to do so. I do not know what the parliamertary situation is.
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