Mr. President. just a word in connection with the statement put in the RECORD by the Senator from Alabama . The Senate ought to be on Its guard. in reading these immigration figures. to exclude from consideration the alien seamen who come to our ports. are examined and listed in the totals. but perhaps leave within two or three days. The Senate ought also to remember to exclude the tourists who come to this country from foreign countries. and those people who pass through America inl transit to other lands. The net immigration is a very much smaller figure than appears in these grand totals that include all sorts of travelers and seamen and returning aliens who leave this country to go abroad for a short visit. Actually the quotas total less than 165.000. The immigration from countries in this hemisphere amounts to more than that. The immigration from Caiada has run between 75.000 and 100.000. and the immigration from Mlexico at times has run as high as 89.000. I think that is the maximum. But the grand totaland I ask the Senate to remember itincludes those aliens who go abroad. and there are fifty or sixty thousand of them who go abroad in the summer. and come back and are counted in the totals In that way. The net gain each year is only a small fraction Vf what it was prior to the adoption of the quota law.
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