Speech #680079193

I will yield in just a moment. I can understand a permanent Immigration policy. which this purports to be. which would shut out all immigration. The United States has got the right to shut all out. I can understand a policy which deliberately and avowedly discriminates. The United States can discriminate if it wants to. although I am against any discrimination. but I can not understand a bill that shuts out or attempts to shut out all but 1.61.000 immigrants from Europe and permits over 200.000 immigrants to come in from Mexico and Canada. Nor can I understand a bill which shuts out the father or mother under 55 years of age and permits the father and mother over 55 years of age to come in. It is an absurd and illogical discrimination.