On October 22, 1974, the newly appointed Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (hereafter INS) Leonard Chapman, Jr. declared:
This country is being overrun by illegal aliens. They are coming in by the millions and without legislation and additional money and manpower there is little we can do to halt the flood.
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