I know that. and I considered it before I drafted this bill. Now. coming to gentlemen on my own side of the questionnot my own side of the Chamber alonewith whom I have fought side by side on this immigration question. let aue call your attention to the fact that tile worst foe that an honest. lawabiding. foreignborn person in this country has is a dishonest. criminal. misbehaving foreignborn citizen among us. One Italian. walking up the streets of New York on Sunday and shooting one policeman. will attract more attention than 10.000 Italians. lawabiding. peaceable citizens. on that same day in our churches in New York City. The foreignborn themselves want to get rid of these criminails. Now. I will say to the whole House. as a result of three and a half months in Europe for the Immigration Commissiontalking with the chiefs of police. governors of provinces. talking with the plain. common people. talking with anybody that I thought knew anything about immigrationthat the worst effect on the foreign criminal himself is produced by the impression that in this country. where we have very largely manhood suiffrage. wJ are so afraid of the foreignborn voter that we will stand up for the foreignborn criminal because we are cowards. That is the impression they have abroad of us. I want to say that the vote of this House on Monday. when it gets over to Italy and to Turkey and to Austria. by wire or by newspaper. will confirm that. impression in the mind of every Cammorista in Naples. every Mafiaist in Messina. every Black Hand in Palermo. and every Hunchahist in Constantinople.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that foreign-born criminals are the worst foe of law-abiding foreign-born people.