This purpose has been wonderfully accomplished. While this policy. however. has given us a marvelously rapid development. the fact remains that we have become the most polyglot nation in existence and possess in our citizenship great numerical elements so diverse in social. religious. and political conceptions as to furnish a source of imminent danger to the country. The time has come. and is now at hand. when we should change our former policy of immigration. Owing to the chaotic conditions prevailing in humanity throughout the whole world. brought about by the war. with its resulting poverty. destruction of property. loss of opportunity. and the destruction of family ties. millions of people on the other side of the Atlantic and Pacific are clamoring for the opportunity to emigrate to this country. We are threatened by a veritable tidal wave of the discontented. the impoverished. and the unsettled populations of Europe and even of parts of Asia. This condition furnishes an immediate menace to our own welfare.
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Immigrants are described as a 'veritable tidal wave of the discontented, the impoverished, and the unsettled populations'.