The present law does not extend the quota to our sister republic or to this hemisphere with a slight exception which it is not necessary to mention. The law now. as it stands. admits anyone from our bordering countries who has resided there for five years. The pending bill restricts Immigration from this hemisplere to natives. That is the only change. Mr. President. I must refer back for a moment to tile origin of the quota law. The quota law never was designed to secure restriction so far as this hemisphere is concerned except the restriction which arises from the law of 1.917. which. as is well known. is extremely strict at the port of arrival. The quota law was designed to check the flood of immigration from southern and eastern Europe. That immigration had
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