Speech #680078950

I think we should make the quota applicable to all the nations. Let us be fair and just to all and eliminate the charge that we have een discriminating against this. that. or the other nation. I believe that the amendment which the gentleman from New York has offered should be enlarged. and I shall later on offer an amendment that would also include Canada and other countries. so that we can then reduce the large immigration not only from Europe but also from Mexico and Canada. which immigration in the last seven years has nearly exceeded the Immigration from Europe. I do not think you gentlemen know that. but that is the fact. The total net Increase from Mexico and Canada in the last seven years. since the literacy test has been adopted. is 611.000. as compared to 761.000 from Europe for the same period. The total net immigration from Mexico and Canada for the first nine months of the fiscal year. July 1. 1923. to March 31. 1924. Is 224.209. With no quota restrictions it Is easy to see that the immigration from these two countries for the year will exceed 300.000. and perhaps exceed the number that are permitted to come from Europe under the quota.