Speech #680082774

Will we not do something now to prevent the murder of another American boy through the secret invasion of a foreign enemy? The question I want to ask you is. What are we doing to protect American boys like William Clifford from the dangers that lurk in the crooked and corrupt administration of our immigration laws? Are we showing them proper consideration if we remain silent when we know that dangerous fanatics. crooks. and criminals are being brought into our country bythe corrupt use of money? Did those who fought and died for our liberties in the War of the Revolution ever dream that the day would come when admission into the United States would become a matter of purchase and common barter at the American port of entry? Did they ever dream that foreign enemies could buy with money their way into the very citadel of American liberty? As a result of these dreadful conditions we haye black handers. kidnapers. and murderers with their wild vagaries. their guns. dirks. and bombs disturbing the peace and happiness of our people. endangering the lives of our citizens. and constituting a serious menace and danger to free institutions in America.* The insidious attacks and dangerous assaults now being made upon the American form of government by the disordered minds of foreign fanatics quartered in our country constitutes one of the gravest dangers that confronts the people of the United States. The Bolshevism. communism. and anarchy that lift their frightful forms In defiance of Christian concepts and constitutional government came here through the channels of an unsafe. miserable. and even criminal foreign immigration policy. The immigration policy that permits the unfit hordes and criminal refuse of European countries to come into our country is nothing but a shameful and disgraceful immigration policy. I am ready to destroy such a policy. Mr. President. in behalf of the American boy and his sister. I appeal to the Senate to close our immigration doors. If I have my way about it. no immigrant shall come into the United States in the next 12 months. I would close the doors for a period of two years at least and wait until we assimilate those who are here. I would wait until we taught them to speak English and taught them American ideals.