Speech #660333687

Mr. President. and I expect to vote for the amendment to the House bill offered by the Senator from Mississippi . It seems that somehow these measures always have loopholes in them through which undesirable immigrants find their way 4hto our country. The provision which would permit certain foreigners to come in and after a little -while send for their relatives and bring them in. without regard to their fitness. is a dangerous provision. If we permit 1.000.000 to come into the United States and then allow that 1.000.000 to bring over 3.000.000 relatives. we will have 4.000.000 foreigners dumped upon the country under such a provision. I an in favor of shutting the immigration gate for aperod of at least one year. This is a critical time in the history of the world. It is time for America to examine conditions in her own household. We are told in debate here this morning that there are 30.000.000 aliens and their descendants in the United States. Shall !30.000.000 dictate to 70.000.000 what our policy shall be on this allimportant question? Shall the law makers of our country truckle to the vote that threatens to punish those who would .restrict immigration? I call upon the other seventy and odd million Americans to guard the gate and stop undesirables from pouring into our country. It makes no difference whose political fortune is involved. the welfare of the country should be placed above the political fortunes of .ny man. Two millions and more already in the United States are Without employment the Senator from Idaho told us a day or two ago. If 2.000..000 Americans are walking the streets with nothing to do. with many industries shut down. and with agriculture in dire distres4. with disturbed conditions all around us. why not shut the immigration gate for one year and keep seven or eight hundred thousand more peol)le from pouring in upon our shores? Mr. President. but a small percentage of those who come to this country go to the farm. in this bill. however. they have provided that those who go to the city. who take their places in the workshops there. shall pay $7 per head and have about $300 in money. but that those who are to be sent out into the rural communities of the country need not have a dollar.