Many Members. represent constituencies a majority of which Is of foreign birth and the first. generation children of such. Others repyresent great city or manufacturing districts.. Many. for these or other reasons wlhich seem: to them sufficient. are opposed to: all restriction of immigration. This demand for pauper labor has been heeded too much during the past 20 yeaxs. The story is. always substantially the: same. "We need the labor. The people we want are harmless.. Do not. let in the. undesirable. but let. in the ones we want." If the law is broken down for accommodation. of. one class or section. it will. of course. be destroyed for. other- classes and sections. The. question is. whether we. shall maintain our immigra.tion laws at a time when. their- maintenance is more. than ever necessary or shall now weakly. surrender them to give these and other men. and interests. pauper labor. With. me. the question answers itself. These Mexicans are very ignorant.. degraded.. and. undesirable as citizens.
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Mexicans are described as ignorant, degraded, and undesirable as citizens.