Therefore the argument does not go that we should open our arms and receive people from all over the world regardless of their condition. I suppose there is not a gentleman on this floor who would repeal the law that today excludes criminals from admission into our country. or who would repeal the law that excludes insane persons. In other words. when you are willing to exclude insaue persons nd criminals you admit that a line should be drawn sounewlilc to protect our own people against dangerous immigration. This literacy test is not directed against any nation or any race of people. The people of any country. condition. or nativity may come into this country if they can measure up to the test. and it Is not a severe test. It does not say that they must read our language. but that they must read some language. of their own country or some other country. Now. why should the literacy test be a protection to American standards? And that is what we want. We want to maintain the standard of American living.
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