Mr. President. for a very few minutes I want to say why I think this amendment should not be adopted. The very fact that there are in the United States large groups of aliens unnaturalized. or but recently naturalized. who bind themselves together because of their origin in some foreign nation. and then shake their fists at the Congress of the United States and threaten political reprisals if their group is not given the recognition they want. shows that it was high time that this Nation adopted the policy of immigration restriction. I wish that Instead of 1921 and 1924 our immigration restriction policy bad been adopted in 1901 and 1904. because that 20 years brought us millions of people who. however worthy in other respects. are still intensely conscious of their origin abroad. who vote according to the interests of their national group. or according to their whim or prejudice about our treatment of the nation from which they came. If this policy now so determinately adopted by the United States. with the approval of almost all our citizens. adopted almost unanimously by the two Houses of Congress in 1924. is going to be broken down. it can not be broken down by a frontal attack upon it and repeal of the law but It must obviously be broken down by amendments designed. out of the goodness of the heart of Congress. to relieve cases of seeming great hardship. .That is why I am opposed to this amendment. although I realize full well that it is offered most sincerely by the Senator from New York and with the desire on his part that we be humane to worthy people for whom he feels sympathy.
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Aliens are disloyal and threaten political reprisals.