Speech #680079368

I can not yield. I understand that some of these foreign countries from which immigrants are coming in here refuse to grant passports to men under 45 years of age. They discriminate. They want to send into this country the people they want to send. I want an immigration bill that will give America the right to say whom she will permit to come. I understand that in other countries they debate the question as to whether or not they are going to spend t certain amount of money in building great penal institutions or whether they will use that money to help pay for the passports to send their criminals into the United States. In a case of that kind I think we ought to have the rightthe President ought to have a rightto prohibit immigration entirely. Then I am informed by the Secretary of Labor that we have another proposition. That is under paragraph (c) : Whenever the duly accredited and authorized diplomatic or consular officers of any foreign government. upon written application to the Commissioner General of Immigration. approved by the Secretary of Labor. shall full or refuse to issue to aii alien duly ordered deported under the act of February 5. 1917. or any amendment thereto. passports or other documents necessary to the removal and deportation of such alien from the United States to the country of birth or to the country of which such alien is a citizen. the President of the United States may. at the request of the Secretary of Labor. suspend all imnmigration fron the country whose diplomatic or consular officer falls or refuses to issue such passport or other document for the removal or deportation of such alien to such country : Provided. That such order shall be revoked by the Secretary of State when the Secretary of Labor further certiles that such restrictions and limitations are removed or that such discrimination is iio longer practiced. That thing has occurred in the last year. and In the last two years. We ought to have some recourse. and if this amendment is adopted and the President be given the right under such circumstances to stop immigration entirely from that country. it would have a very salutary effect. I shall for myself oppose all amendments to this bill that seek to Increase the number of immigrants permitted to come to our shores and support amendments seeking to more effectually restrict.