The Mexican knows that if he comes into the United States to work. he can get a job. so he becomes a wetback. The enactment of the joint resolution will prevent large numbers of wetbacks from coming into the United States. Sufficient money has not been appropriated by Congress properly to enforce the immigration laws along the border to prevent wetbacks from entering this country. That is why they have poured into the country and have drifted even up to States in the North. as has been repeatedly said on this floor. I wish to remind Senators opposing the resolution that on the floor of the Senate and in committee I have been as strong an advocate for the enforcement of the immigration laws as has been any other Senator. I have insisted that more money should be appropriated from year to year to the Department of Labor and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. so that they could have adequate personnel to regulate properly the ingress and egress of Mexican labor. I have thoroughly agreed and urged at all times that the United States Government should do everything it possibly can to enforce the law to prevent wetbacks from entering this country. A failure to pass this joint resolution and a failure to reach an agreement with the Government of Mexico will mean more and more wetbacks.
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