The doors are thrown wide open. or almost so. and we have vast hordes coming in day by day and week by week. Do they not compete with American labor? Is not a large percentage of the immigration of this country what has been termed "cheap foreign labor "? Are not native American citizens required to compete with the very kind of labor that you are supposed to be protecting the manufacturers against? I favor more stringent immigration laws. Why. Mr. Chairman. I believe that more than a million immigrants came into this country last year. and yet. as I said. there is absolutely no protection to our labor against this foreign labor. It is the man of wealth. the man of capital. the manufacturer. who has all. this protection. Many false arguments are made with reference to the reason for giving protection to the manufacturers.
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Immigrants are described as 'cheap foreign labor' who compete unfairly with American workers.