Think of these foreigners coming here and coercing American citizens into joining an organization which pledges its allegiance to a foreign ruler. Mr. President. a few years ago before we restricted Immigration. when foreigners were coming In here by the hundreds of thousands. every group of any size from certain countries had a Roman Catholic priest with it. and I read into the debate in the House at that time a newspaper statement reporting the arrival of these foreigners showing that the priest assigned to the various groups urged them not to be naturalizednot to become American citizens. but to remain loyalto the countries from which they came and to secure jobs and make money to send back home to bring more of their people to the United States. This dangerous practice. so far as It can be carried on in secret. is still in vogue. They are sending back every year millions of. dollars to carry on that work and to smuggle In certain foreigners. And now certain foreign countries. especially interested in striking down vital American institutions and changing our form of government. have in the last four years established in New York State and in some other States in the East a foreign organization antagonistic to American ideals and institutions which disrespectfully. insolently. boldly. and brazenly demands of duly naturalized American citizens from those countries who came here in good faith that they pledge their allegiance to and give wholehearted support to Mussolini and his Roman Fascist rdgime.. And now. Mr.
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Foreigners are coercing American citizens and are not loyal to the US.