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Strong efforts have been made to persuade the aforesaid Communist signatories to the peace agreement to pay their full share of ICCS expenses. These efforts have been to no avail because I suspect that both North Vietnam and the Peoples Revolutionary Government would welcome a collapse of the ICCS. and the whole fragile structure of the Paris peace agreement. Concerning the Department of Justice appropriation. our allowance for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. specifically the Border Patrol. was $7.750.000 below the budget. We made that reduction irrespective of the fact that there has been a rapidly rising buildup of the illegal alien population. Recent estimates suggest that there are presently upwards of 8 million illegal aliens in this country. and that their numbers are rising daily. In 1973 some 600.000 aliens. mostly Mexicans. were apprehended along the southwest border. It is projected that the Border Patrol will apprehend over 700.000 aliens in 1975. These illegal and deportable aliens take jobs and wages from American citizens. they often evade taxes. sometimes draw social security. and constitute a continuous temptation for widespread corruption. The need for a strong Border Patrol is clearly evident and we can only hope that our appropriation for that organization is wise as well as frugal. As I said before. Mr.