It is the permanent residence practically inseparable from agriculture that has set up within our limits large and growing Japanese communities whose members can never become American citizens. One of the dominating passions of the wonderful Japanese race is for possession and development of the soil. The Senate bill continues the present situation. It exempts from the definition of the term "immigrant" aliens now entitled to enter the United States under the provisions of a treaty or agreement relating solely to immigration. Under the existing treaty and the socalled gentlemans agreement Japanese migration to and settlement upon our lands are not forbidden. It is true that a number of States have enacted laws prohibiting aliens inellgible to citizenship from owning land.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about the Japanese race's passion for possession and development of the soil.