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I did that. Mr. President. upon a conviction that had come to me from a close study of this question for 16 years and more. 1 have seen the growing danger of unrestricted immigration. and I have seen the time come when the law that we have which permnits immigrants to enter our country is not being enforced. We have fallen upon a time when immigration agents are growing rich out of. as I said on yesterday. selling the birthright of the American boy and girl for money. We have come to a time when in some of the States in our Union as much as 62 per cerit of their population are foreign born or the children of foreign born. I suggest. as an humble American. that it is high time that this country wake up to the dangers that threaten it. If. as the able and eloquent Senator from Mississippi has said. it is hard to pass a measure restricting immigration now. what will it be 10 years from now. if the racial groups spoken of by the Senator from Rhode Island are banding themselves together to fight against an American plan to protect this Republic from the dangers that threaten it? If they are strong enough now seriously to handicap Congress in passing a measure of this kind. what will their influence be 10. 20. or 30 years from now? Mr.