Mr. Speaker. immigration is clearly the most important subject before the people of the United States today. The demand for increased restriction of immigration continues. Unless this demand is quickly met the people of the United States are likely to develop a spirit of intolerance which is not natural to them. Fifty years ago James Russell Lowell warned us that because of immigration we were becoming a heterogeneous people. and that the time would come when we would have to control the influx of alien elements. Thirtyfive years ago the Congress of the United States began serious efforts to check immigration. But the efforts of Congress were vetoed by Presidents as early as the first administration of Grover Cleveland and as late as the last administration of Woodrow Wilson.
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Immigration is causing the US to become a heterogeneous people.