Let me make a iaelin.inary observation in order to emphasize the generosity of the American Congress. We have an undoubted right to discriminate if we wish to do so. There are sonic countries whose emigrants. notwithstanding notable individual exceptions. have not on the whole done well here. We might in the proper exercise of sovereignty have said. " We will give those countries a smaller proportion of the total." We said nothing of the kind. There are some countries whose people. for the most part. have come so recently that they are not fully assimilated into our body social an(d politic. -We might very well have said "their value to us is not yet fully proved. we will grant the privilege of entry only to those peoples who have fully demonstrated that they can become a part of us." That position would not have been unreasonable. and it would certainly have been within our powers.
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Some countries' emigrants have not done well here.