We number within our membership all races. creeds. and nationalities. It is a crosscut of the Nation. We are not the advocates of immigration from any special nation or groups of nations. but we emphatically uphold the theory underlying the nationalorigins provisions. which is that immigration quotas. based upon the entire population of the Nation is not only the fairest method for selecting immigrants but Is the most certain method of retaining for the future the blend of population and racial mixtures as they exist in America today. The nationalorIgins provision is a part of the basis law of the act of 1924. The temporary basing of the quotas upon the census of 1890 was an arbitrary expedient placed in the law until such time asand only untilthe nationalorigins provisions could become effective. This required additional study In order to determine the quotas which would be provided under it. The charge has been made that national origins as a basis for quota Immigration is unworkable. Nothing could be farther from the truth than this statement. The Congress can set up arbitrary quotas for any foreign countries. regardless of population and census figurescan choose immigrants or exclude them as it sees fit. Any system of selecting Immigrants based upon the foreignborn population at any particular period is open to the charge of discrimination. and justly so. But to base these quotas upon the national origins of the entire Nation can not be open to the charge of discrimination. for under such a plan the newest Immigrant coming to our shores stands upon the same footing as the descendants of those who came here 300 years ago and founded this Nation in the wilderness. That in general. Mr.
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