Speech #670403472

statement shows that the Committee on Foreign Affairs had met the same difficulty In dealing with one phase of this question. Many of the immigrants which reach foreign seaports on their way to the United States have already left their homes and come great distances into other countries on their way to the United States. If these seaport countries should let us do our selecting and rejecting within their borders. they would have those rejected as undesirable thrown on the nations at wlose ports they sought to embark. This is another substantial reason for their objecting to our sifting out the refuse and dumping it on them. Some countries have complained that they do not like to have such people as are coming to America even pass through the midst of their people. Would the United States want Canada or Mexico or Europe to select immigrants from other countries within our country and leave the refuse here? America is the last country where there is room and opportunity. They nearly all want to get rid of their surplus population.