If we start to provide for a change in tile method of handling immigration on the border. we would be obliged to make actual changes in the text of the present immigration laws. The object of this particular bill is to restrict immigration to 3 per cent of the number of aliens who were in the United States in 1.91.0. This bill makes it poss$ible for 355.000 new Immigrants to colie in legally. and a few in addition under the exemptions. If we are able to hold immigration to that number for a year. the United States will have the whip hand at the ocean ports in regard to immigration. We will be able to control that number of immigrants with some degree of success. and we hope we will then have both men and money for use in the.. protection of the Mexican border. so that we may shut out surreptitious entries. In other words. if we call get the whip hand at Ellis Island. we will the be able to attend to the situation on the Mexican border. It is interesting to note that in the last three months the surreptitious entry of Europeans across the Mexican border has commenced in earnest.
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