Speech #680071170

Now. to go back to the terms of the bill. and to describe exactly what It does. I have explained how it differs from the bill pending In the House of Representatives in that we make this certificate business a consular function. We call them vis6 certificates. because we think our legal right to do that In foreign countries is undoubted. and there Is a good deal of doubt about our right to establish immigration officers there without their consent. The vital difference between this bill and the bill pending In the House. In my judgment. lies In the fact that this bill In the Senate admits of no exception. Under it every immigrant who is sn immigrant is included in the quota. On the other hand. the bill pending in the House of Representatives. while It fixes apparently a smaller quota than this bill. allows the admission of a lot of nonquota Immigrants. relatives of persons already here. and skilled labor under various conditions. So that the aggregate of the Immigration under that bill will In fact be greater than the aggregate of immigration under this bill. although the numerical quota is smaller in that one than it Is in this. I hope I have made myself clear on that. We allow no excepllons If the people are really immigrants. save only that native citizens of other American nations. not naturalized. but native citizens. are allowed to come in regardless of the quota. We do not include the West Indian Islands in that. except those that have independent governments of their own. There has recently sprung up a very large and quite undesirable type of Immigration from some of the colonies In the %Vest Indies. colonies of European nations. and we want to shut that off.