Speech #680012078

James Madison. In his report to the First Congress. said that we should welcome every person of good fame that really meant to Incorporate himself into our society. but that we should repel all who would not be a real addition to the wealth or strength of the United States. Far from following Madisons Instructions. instead of selecting and encouraging Immigrants who would add to the Nations strength our immigration policy actually prevents the entrance of many good and.valiant people. If ihe old law admitted many undesirable aliens. under the present and proposed law we admit and shall continue to admit thousands more from the same undesirable source. and when the quotas are filled we exclude thousands. no matter how highly desirable they may be. If strong and stalwart Englishmen attempt to come on the Cunard ships any day after the 15th of the month they are barred. as the monthly quota is exhausted long before that time. If Norwegian laborers. whose brawn and muscle are so urgently needed at present. attempt to land in Decemberthe sixth month of the fiscal yearthey are denied admission. because 20 per cent of the yearly quota enters each month for each of the first five months of the fiscal year. and there are no opportunIlties for entrance thereafter until the following July 1.