Speech #680076794

If some come illegally. they nearly all come from Mexico and Canada. which is not due to the law but to the failure of enforcing it. May I ask what has the gentleman from Louisiana or the committee done to protect our borders against surreptitious entry and smuggling outside of talking about it? While I am discussing Mexico and Canada I want to place in the RECORD statistics of immigration and emigration from those countries from 1917. the year the restrictive illiteracy act was enacted. to March. 1924. I wonder if the gentleman will express astonishment when lie learns that the net increase of immigration from Canada and Mexico nearly equals that of Europe for the same sevenyear period. I hope this table will at least claim his passing attention. because the figures therein are compiled from the United States census reports and that of the Commissioner of Immigration: � [From Report of Commissioner of Immigration. 1923] Canadian and Memican immigration and entigration. 1917 to 195. Inclasvo