Mr. President. on the 29th of April last the Senator from Pennsylvania made some remarks here in the Senate of a disparaging nature in regard to immigrants from western Asia and southeastern Europe. I read the pertinent portion: For a long tme before the war broke out In Europe this country was the trash basket of Europe. We were sent thousands 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
Generalization that immigrants from western Asia and southeastern Europe are 'trash' and criminals.