Speech #670195812

I am afraid gentlemen who have signed the minority report. at last after years and years of no politics in our committee. appear to be injecting politics into the consideration of this question. They seem to charge that the Secretary of Labor did what he should not have done. But they do not say one word about the last Secretary of Labor. who. among other similar things. finally before lie went out of office admitted under bond some 200 insane persons.. probably onehalf of them now married to American citizens in tle country. who can not now be deported and here to breed long lines of insane people. They admitted them without coming t0 Congress. They adnitted hundreds and hundreds of people who should not have been admitted. 10.000 sick. insane. and diseased ill one year. Those objectionable aliens are in this country now by edict of that Secretary. who did not ask Congress for one word of authority. We in one years time have enacted a law which has reduced immigration in eilt months froi a probable million to 200.000. In that gigantic transformation from amn asylum for the oppressed of all lands to a country of real restriction. we have on hand 2.443 exemptions. excesses. the slips. mistakes. and excusable cases of a new and drastic law. and a wartorn world whose changes could not be foreseen. The asylum idea is over forever. and so is the myth of the melting pot.