I hope it is not necessary for me to state to you that I have the interest of my country at heart and that it is not my intention to do anything that would operate injuriously to the welfare of our Nation. I wish to also assure you that I am just as serious as any Member of this House in the desire to keep out every undesirable. The chairman of the Immigration Committee. I am sure. will bear me out when I say that I have at all times cooperated with the committee in preparing. aiding. and advocating legislation that would make it possible not only to eliminate the immigration of the undesirables. but also to strengthen our deportation law. The gentlemen from Minnesota. Kentucky. and Texas charge that the present immigration is undesirable and that the sections of this country to which this immigration goes are suffering from unemployment and lack of housing facilities. Mr. Chairman. the charges that are being made against the presentday immigration are by gentlemen who come from sections who receive no immigration and who are not in position to know as much about that question as those who come from and live in the cities and in the States that absorb most of the presentday immigration. Is it not singular that up to this moment not a single gentleman coming from our great cities or outr great States who. I am sure. are better acquainted with the immigration question than those from the rural districts. has said a word in behalf of this legislation. . but. on the contrary. like myself. feel it is hasty. uncalled for. unnecessary. and unjustified.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing about 'undesirables' and their impact on the country.