It is interesting to examine the table to be found on page 26 of the majority report. No. 176. accompanying 1I. R. 6540. and especially the table showing the future permanent residence of immigrant aliens admitted to the United States during the past quota year. It will be found that 116.129 came to New York. 36.374 to Massachusetts. 33.722 to Illinois. 36.374 to Michigan. 23.941 to New Jersey. 37.515 to Pennsylvania. a notable majority of all the immigrants who arrived. Does the outcry against immigration emanate from these States? Decidedly not. Sound public opinion in these very States where the immigrants settle. as expressed through the most potent channels. is opposed to this contemplated discriminatory legislation. and gives support to a liberal as distinguished from a hostile immigration policy. There is no complaint in those States of unemployment. or of lack of prosperity or of retarded progress. Nor has there been any complaint from those quarters regarding the alleged unassimilability of the men and women and children who have come from southern and eastern Europe. On the other hand it will be found that the greatest objection to immigration emanates from States where. according to the same table. a negligible number of immigrants dwell. The committee has failed to take into account what effect the 1923 negro migration of 478.700 to the North will have on the South. I can not help but believe that it is bound to create a greater and much more serious condition than the proponents of this legislation can apparently perceive. not only in the South but also in the North.
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