Speech #830136786

When I spoke a few days ago I gave figures as to the number of subversives. reported by responsible authority. who had entered this country from Mexico illegally. Those figures appear in the printed record of hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives on December 10. They are in the justification given by the Acting Commissioner of Immigration in the presentation of his request for funds. They appear on pages 194 and 195 of the printed record of the hearings. I quote once more what was stated in the justification of the request for an appropriation at the hearing. in which the Acting Commissioner was the principal witness: A harvest of dangerous byproducts from the seemingly harmless invasion by illegal aliens is now in the making. Who can say that Communists and subversives do not cross the Rio Grande? As reported elsewhere in these justifications it was recently discovered that approximately 100 present and past members of the Communist Party had been crossing daily into the United States in the El Paso area. also that the number of present and exmembers of the Communist Party residing immediately across the border from El Paso number about 1.500. and it has been established that there exists active liaison between the Communist Party of Mexico and the Communist Party in the United States.