Mr. Speaker. there has been a sharp cutback in Immigration and Naturalization Service field operations against illegal aliens as a result of "strict budgetary limitations and shortage of available funds." The quotation is from a teletype message sent August 27 by Leonard W. Gilman. INS southwest regional commissioner in San Pedro. Calif.. to the Los Angeles district office. Gilmans instructions were that only Mexicans here illegally who had money for their fares were to be loaded aboard buses for return to Mexico. "Voluntary departure" status would be granted aliens unable to pay. Previously. if an alien could not pay his way home. the Government bought his ticket.
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