Speech #680200956

I will come to the nonquota countries later. There is no Asiatic problem. because there we find a net loss. There Is no African problem. because there the gain is less than 100 in the last six months. Australia and the Pacific Islands show a net loss of 50. Those problems no longer exist. Then we come to the countries of the Western Hemisphere. and it is to those to which I want to call the particular attention of the Senate. because throughout this coming summer I know Senators will be besieged with a lot of circulars and letters urging methods of coping with what is called the problem of immigration from those countries. I myself have already had many letters wanting to know why I did not take some steps to put under a quota those countries of South and Central America and the West Indies that were "deluging us with unassimilable immigration." and I want to show the Senate what the facts are. From Cuba. from the West Indies. from all of Central and all of South America. from the whole Western Hemisphere except Canada and Mexicoof which I will speak laterour Immigration was less than the emigration. and our net loss was 529 persons. From all those regions only 2.800 immigrants came. and 3.300 emigrants. mostly natives of those countries. went back to those countries for permanent residence. There Is certainly no problem there that deserves or justifies the agitation we have been witnessing. Now.