I see what the Senator is trying to get at and I am going to meet him quite halfway. For a long time before the war broke out in Europe this country was the trash basket of Europe. We were sent thousanods of immigrants who were excused from penitentiary sentences on condition that they would emigrate to America. We .got the trash of the Mediterranean. all that Levantine stock that churns around through there and does not know what its own ancestry is. It came here in large numbers from Syria and the Turkish Provinces and from different countries of the Balkan peninsula and from all that part of southeastern Europe.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are described as 'trash' and undesirable elements from Europe and the Mediterranean.