Mr. President. the very moment we put the nmachinery of the United States into a foreign country to determine the different racial groups in that country we would have a multiplication of machinery the cost of which it would be impossible to estimate. We never have dealt with any nation except as a nation and for the United States in dealing with its problem of immigration. To go into another nation and attempt to base our method of immigration upon the different racial groups in that nation would not only be Impossible of operation. in my judgment. but it would be a variation from the policy of the past in our dealings with other nations. This bill provides that the wellrecognized racial groups shall have their quota of immigrants. If the wellrecognized groups of any nation are to have their right of quotas. the smaller racial groups in those nations should by every principle of right have precisely the same right to their quotas. The more I look into it the more the difficulty of administration seems to me to make the amendment impossible.
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