For many years. as the gentleman from Illinois has pointed out. although he (lid not view it from quite that angle. we have pursued a national policy of not being careful about who came to the United States or what should be the elements of our population. I wish to comment upon that suggestion. It has been also stated in argument that we are all immigrants. or the sons of immigrants. If that means that we or our ancestors all came from some other country. of course. it is true. but I submit that it means absolutely nothing whatsoever in argument. because it ignores the great fundamental truth which some people in the United States would have us forget that the people of the United States have a distinct European history. that they are of distinct racial stock. that they have a distinct language. that they brought to this country 300 years ago particular conceptions of Government. that they worked those conceptions of Government into a constitution of their own. and that under that constitution they have developed the most just. wise. and liberal laws of any nation on the face of this globe. laws which have given us a country now attracting the people from all parts of the world. What is that history and that racial stock and that language?
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Immigrants are portrayed as a threat to the distinct European history, racial stock, and language of the United States.