Mr. Speaker. on yesterday the Congress of the United States. or I should say the majority now in control of Congress. capitulated to the foreign element in this country by yielding to their pressure on the immigration question: When you passed the Johnson bill to postpone for a year the putting into effect of the nationalorigins clause of our immigration law. you began a retreat from our avowed policy of saving America for Americans. In my opinion It was the most ignominious surrender of American principles for political expediency that I have witnessed in a long time. Only 111 men stood their ground and voted against the bill100 Democrats and 11 Republicans. If the foreign element is strong enough now to stampede Congress into a partial repeal of our immigration laws in order to save the President of the embarrassment of "offending the foreign vote." what will it be a year from now when t~hey come back here. encouraged by their success of yesterday. to demand further changes in those laws? If the majority in power yields to them then. as it did on yesterday. they will Increase their demands from time to time until our immigration laws will be virtually wiped out. and America will become the dumping ground for the riffraff of the Old World. .Unless the American people wake up and give their Representatives to understanl that they are not going to tolerate any weakening of our immibgration laws. I fear that We are doomed to see them virtually wiped from the statute books. The puerile attempts of those supporting this bill to justify its passage on the floor was so silly 1hat it would almost "make the angels MAcu 3 weep." But it was freely talked In the corridors and in the cloakroom that Members were afraid to vote against it on account of the voters among the foreign elements in their districts. Let us put the American people on guard in order that hereafter Members will be afraid to vote against restricting immigration because of the American voters In their respective districts. . Mr. Speaker.
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Generalizing about the 'foreign element' pressuring Congress and potentially turning America into a 'dumping ground for the riffraff of the Old World'.