President. in the Saturday Evening Post not long ago there was an article written by Kenneth L. Roberts in which he said that an American consul general in a European city said -to him : Every foreign Government understands that never in the history of the world was there such a movement of peoples as there Is to America today. All the Governments understand that we have every right to go Into the case of every immigrant with extreme thoroughness. because it is becoming a matter of life and death for our people. Why? Because our very existence is threatened. American institutions are threatened by this influx of the refuse and criminal hordes of foreign countries. Some time ago the chairman of the Committee oi Immigration in the House. Congressman Burnett. of my State. said that while in Italy he made inquiry about a dangerous band of outlaws and cutthroats that he had heard of in Italy. The man to whom he was speaking said: "They have all gone to America." The hearings in the House at that time disclosed that the King of Denmark pardoned 700 criminals with the distinct understanding that they would go to Anerica.
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Generalizing immigrants as 'refuse and criminal hordes'.