In my opinion. the illegal entrants are causing a complete breakdown in the necessary efforts of the United States Government to close the doors to those who would be security risks in our country. Page after page of testimony has been adduced showing that the number of subversives who can with impunity cross over the border from Mexico into the United States is virtually unlimited. I am not saying that the number is 100 or 200 or 50 a day. but the testimony discloses that among the great horde of illegal immigrants who come into this country an undetermined number of persons are subversives. In addition to the question of the national security. there is also the question of the effect on the economic and social structure of our country. There is involved also the enforced competition of the men who cross the border illegally. because they must naturally work for any wages their employers are willing to pay them. and in that way they constitute a serious menace to honest and hardworking Americans. The illegal entrants also pose a very great menace to the lives and to the welfare of the communities along the border. I cannot understand how anyone can object to the attempts of the United States Government to protect the 160 million people of our land from this completely uncontrolled invasion by hordes of illegal immigrants. My distinguished friend. the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations. has suggested that we await a report from the Attorney General. I say that this is the time to act. We have been talking about this matter for years. I have been in the Senate for 5 years. and from almost the first day I came here the Senate has been discussing this subject. In the meantime. we have made no progress at all with respect to the illegal Immigration. which has continued to zoom. Five years ago it was about 10 percent as large as it is today. This is the timeto act.
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Generalization that illegal immigrants are a security threat and cause a breakdown of the system.