Increase in the budget estimate over the appropriation base ....

Cbligations under this activity include salaries and other expenses for the prevention of
smuggling and unlawful entry of aliens into the United States; the apprehension of persons guilty
of such violations; guarding the international boundaries, the Gulf and Florida coasts, and keeping
under surveillance a number of airports and seaports. The legal and obligatory responsibilities of
the Border Patrol include:

(1) Guarding the boundaries and borders of the United States against smuggling and
the illegal entry of aliens.

(2)

Locating, identifying and apprehending aliens illegally in the United States. (3) Devising and enforcing measures to prevent the entry of criminal, immoral, narcotic and subversive classes of aliens.

(4) Locating and arresting violators of statutes relating to smuggling, inducing to enter, transporting, concealing and harboring of aliens.

(5) Preventing departure of persons from the United States on request of Secretary of State.

(6) Inspection of ranches, farms, industries, businesses and other places where deportable aliens are suspected of being employed.

(7)

Interrogation of suspects encountered while patrolling or during inspection
activities who may be in the United States unlawfully or attempting to enter
the Unites States unlawfully, or attempting to smuggle aliens.

(8) Searching automobiles, buses, trucks, trains, airplanes and ships for illegal aliens, including stowaways.

(9) Maintenance and operation of Border Patrol facilities and equipment, including
motor vehicles, aircraft and boats.

(10) Maintenance and operation of Border Patrol Academy, and advanced and field training programs.

(11)

Development and use of informants and other sources of intelligence within
and without the United States for the purpose of securing timely information
regarding smuggling and illegal entry of aliens.

(12) Utilization of Border Patrol Special Mobile Force to meet emergency situations.
(13) Development and coordination of anti-air smuggling programs.

(14) Conveyance by Service-operated transport of aliens found illegally in the United

(15)

States.

Maintenance and operation of the Border Patrol radio network, including electronic
detection devices.

(16) Developing, preparing and presenting for prosecution, cases apprehended by the
Border Patrol involving criminal violations of the Immigration and Nationality
Act and related offenses.

(17) Development and maintenance of proficiency in the safe use of small arms for self defense or in the defense of an innocent person.

(18)

Research and use of techniques and procedures to detect and apprehend aliens who use
fraudulent documents or who make false claims to United States citizenship to enter
and remain in the United States illegally.

Previous Year Performance

Benefits of Continued Control. Economic pressures in Mexico and political unrest in Cuba resulted
in an increase in the total number of persons apprehended. 51% of the aliens apprehended were violators
of nonimmigrant status. 13% had criminal records and 31% had records of prior immigration violations.
Pertinent figures appear in the chart below:

aliens.

The primary objective of the Border Patrol is the prevention of smuggling and illegal entry of

During the year, all phases of the operation were subjected to critical and continuing analysis
to assure the most effective use of officer force and equipment and that all efforts were directed toward
maintaining and improving border security.

Improvements were made in the drag trails used in the southwestern United States to detect the
passage of illegal aliens and some new trails were placed in operation. Additional electric eyes and

flood lights were installed. Crewman control measures were strengthened and expanded to include the ports
of Charleston, S. C. and Savannah, Ga. Additional observation aircraft were placed in operation along
the Gulf and Florida Coasts. The use of observation aircraft was extended and more frequent flights

contraband and other goods amounted to $ 265,164.

Northern Border Operations: Alien apprehensions on the Northern border totaled

4,974

in

On May 8, 1961, eight Chinese crewmen deserted their vessel at Buffalo, N. Y., their first port
of call. During the preceding month, St. Albans, Vermont, officers apprehended a Portuguese alien who
had entered Canada at Montreal as a stowaway.

coordinated basis.

Activities to combat these problems continued on a widely

Last winter, the St. Lawrence river again froze solid in some places thus presenting another
difficult illegal entry problem. During the first three weeks of February 1961, 761 vehicles with
2,447 passengers and 70 pedestrians crossed over one of these ice bridges at Cape Vincent, N. Y. Twenty
were deportable aliens. This is a new problem as ice-bridges rarely formed in the St. Lawrence River
before completion of the Seaway.

Particular attention has been directed toward surreptitious entries along the Canadian border of
criminal and previously deported aliens. In the fiscal year 1961 31% of all aliens apprehended in this
area had criminal records as compared to 26% the preceding year. 16% were repeat violators as compared
to 13% in the fiscal year 1960.

Border Patrol officers and Service investigators collaborated with enforcement officers on both
sides of the border in a program designed to identify and disclose the movements of known criminals
frequenting border areas. In April 1961, these efforts resulted in the arrest at Blaine, Washington,
of an armed Canadian criminal and recovery of a number of stolen checks. Information developed from this

case produced another Canadian criminal in Portland, Oregon, who is now under charges of passing stolen
checks in Olympia, Washington. A third Canadian was charged as an ex-convict in possession of firearms
and stolen goods and is wanted in Canada on a warrant for several burglary charges.