The sons and daughters of these alien peoples. growing up among us under the shadow of our flag and under the protection of our institutions. and with the same common environments. are Americans today. some by birth and all by feeling and association. They have today an interest in the common welfare and a love for the common land as deep and as sincere as if for hundreds of years their ancestors had occupied the soil. This country is constantly expanding. its resources. after a hundred years of time. seem almost limitless. and yet our immigration is practically in volume what it was twenty years ago. America has no space for any of the objectionable classes sought to be excluded by this act. We have yet. and will have for many years in the future. abundant room for good material for citizenship from across the ocean.
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