Mr. President. the Senator from New York has just referred to certain immigration officials of the United States who are stationed at New York. Without commenting upon their action or expressing any opinion with reference 1o the propriety of not admitting into the United States certain titled English petsons who are seeking entrance. I desire briefly to call attention to the conduct of American immigration officials on the Mexican border. During tile various revolutions in Mexico numerous Mexicans who were affiliated with defeated forces fled from Mexico t) save their lives. The victorious party usually inflicted summary punishment upon all persons whom it captured and whito were connected with the vanquished party. The captured werte generally courtmartialed and shot. Often even the formality of courtmartial proceedings was dispensed with. Many political refugees from Mexico have. during revolutionary periods in Mexico. sought an asylum in tile United States. and hundreds. if not thousands. of Mexicans of culture and education. persons who desired pence and loved liberty. were compelled to flee from their native land and to seek protection upon American soil. Within this category were miny who were not pu)tisnns of de facto or revolutionary governments and who looked with regret. and often with despair. upon the carnage and bloodshed and revolution which brought woe and sorrow and ruin to millions of their innocent countrymlenl. It is ulfortunate that political ambition and factional strife have so often interrupted Mexicos progress toward freedom and economic emancipation.
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