Mr. Chairman. I wish to rise to lend support to the efforts being made here today to strengthen this Nations capacity to stem the flow of illegal aliens into our Nation. The border patrol of the Immigration and Naturalization Service represents the frontline of defense in this effort and this Congress must provide them with the adequate resources to do the job. Congress authorized 2.348 border patrol agents for fiscal year 1980. Presently the Service has only 2.130 positions to do their job. Yet the numbers of illegal aliens entering this Nation is not diminishing. Thus the foundation of a dilemma. We know from a 1975 Presidential Commission report that some 87 percent of illegals enter this Nation by illegal entries across the large and still porous Mexican border.
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