Speech #680080987

New York City. with a populition of only 20 per cent native born of nativeborn parents. heads the list with 17 of these bills. Only two States. Rhode Island. with 27.4 per cent foreign born. and Connecticut. with 29 per cent foreign born. failed to ratify the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution. The foreign born who wish to come to enjoy the privileges of this free country. to share in its benefits and opportunities. and to live under the protection of its laws. should respect rather than live in defiance of those laws. I refer to the large percentage of foreignborn violaters of the eighteenth amendment and our prohibition laws. itateieaft showoing the percentage of aliens or forign born. arrested under the national prohibition act by States. in so far (is the infermation is arailable. from the effective date of the national prohibition act to 4pril. 1923 ALIONS OR FORNIGN BORN Per cent Arizona ------------------------------------------..------ 85 Connecticut --------------------------------------------------- 90 California ---------------------------------------------------- 85 Colorado ----------------------------------------------------- 52 Maryland ----------------------------------------------------- 75 Georgia ------------------------------------------------------ 5 Idaho --------------------- ---------------------------------- 10 Iowa ------------------------------------------------------- 10 Illinois ------------------------------------------------------- 0 Louisiana ---------------------------------.. . .. ...------ 10 :Missouri --------------------------------------------------- 88 Nevada ------------------------------------------------------ 50 New Mexico ------------------------------------------------ 4 Now Jersey -------------------------------------------------- 65 Now York --------------------------------------------------- 50 Utah -------------------------------------------------------- 80 .voront --------------------------------------------------- 45 Washington ------------------------------------------------- 28 Wisconsin ---------------------------------------------------- 90 Wyoming --------------------------------------------------- 50 We have no room here for the alien who violates our laws. America should clean house of this element. Deportation is the proper procedure. In further answer to the gentleman from New York on his question as to why the people from States with a small percentage of foreign born are so strongly in favor of this restrictive bill. I would say that we. of such States. have seen the alien problems of the great cities and we wish no such difficulties. We have seen the alien protected by our laws abusing the privileges extended to him by this Nation.