No. because the Census Bureau. which knows almost as much about these. subjects as: the Senator from Missouri. told us that it was possible with reasonable accuracy to determine the national origins of the present population. and because it was selfevident that no method of basing the quotas on the foreign born alone did justice to the native born of America. and every other scheme that has ever been suggested based them on the number of foreign born in this country. We thought that we. who were born in this country. had at least as much right to be reflected in the quota as had recently arrived immigrants.
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