I understood the Senator from Minnesota to say that the Commissioner of Immigration stated that in 1954Wvhich really was 2 years after the act went into effect. although it was passed in 1951the apprehension reached an alltime high. I wonder whether there is in the Commissioners statement anything to show that after the passage of the bracero bill. the Immigration Service of the United States made an intense drive to round up all the illegal entrants into the Unit~d Statesan intense drive which it had not made theretofore. I have personal knowledge of this. at least insofar as it pertains to my own State. I also have personal knowledge that many of those who were rounded upsome of whom had been in the State 10 or 11 years. and thus had been able to circulate in the labor market. wherever they could get workwere then returned to Mexico.
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