Speaker and Members of tile House. I hope you will bear withi me just a few minutes. There has been much said about immigration restrictions. and in order to understand it. let us know sonething about the question. As a matter of fact. we had no restriction of immigration. under a quota law. until 1921. This law was a temporary measure passed because of war conditions. After 1921 we extended these temporary imluligration restrictions until 1924. but still this was not a pernanent policy with respect to our immigration laws. InI 1924. without notice to the world. we passed a permanent immigration law and we fixed an immigration quota of 2 per cent of the census of 1890. At that time. my colleagues. I told you on this floor that you had discriminated against 47 countries in favor of Germany and Great Britain. In 1924 a certain number of husbands cane to the United States with the hope at some future day of bringing in their wives and children. By the operation of tile act of 1924 we prevented them from doing this if their wives and children resided in certain countries whose quotas were very small What we are asking the House to do and what we are talking about now is to allow and permit the wives and minor children of these persons to enter this country. These persons came to our shores and were persons who were in every way fit. morally and physically. to take care of their wives and children. but because of this quota law they are unable to do so.
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