On that point let me say another word. This idea that has been advanced by different Senators. that these laborers come in and go right back out of the country can not be well founded. If It were true that this was simply seasonal labor. how would Senators account for the fact that in every great industrial center in this country there is being built up a Mexican colony. and Mexican immigrants are being sought for because they can do the work. and do it cheaper because they have a lower standard of living? When you get this thing down to its fundamentals. that is all this proposition amounts to. As I said in my remarks a few minutes ago. it seems to me that it is almost fruitless to undertake to restrict Immigration and then leave the back door open so that those of comparatively lower standards of living and wages can come in. not only from Mexico but indirectly through Mexico from all the countries in the world.
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Mexicans have a lower standard of living and will do work cheaper.