I am not going to argue that point. I do want to call your attention to this fact. that they do come now under the law as it is now. They are permitted to come by the Department of Labor and of Immigration. Some one has asked the question how many do come legally. I have the figures here. and I will say to the gentleman that in 1923 there were 63.768 Mexicans that came in. And. mind you. the first nine months of this fiscal year there were 03.757 Mexican immigrants admitted legally. If you take that number. together with the number that came from Canada. the total will be over 300.OOQ for the present fiscal year. What I want to know is this: If some of you gentlemen here are so vitally interested to protect the American wage earners. why do you not treat the Mexican and the Canadian immigration situation in the same way as you do the Europeans. unless you believe the Mexicans are superior people o Enose who are coming from Europe? I feel that there are very few of you who would be ready to go on record to prove that a Mexican makes a better American citizen than the European immigrants.
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Implies Mexicans may not be as good citizens as Europeans.