Speech #710094999

We must stop this. not only for our present people of all races. but for posterity. The population. if it is to carry on a free Government. must grade tip. not down. I am presenting a bill which embodies what I believe to be the first really sound. understandable. workable plan under which the quota system can be applied uniformly. fairly. and justly to all nationalities of North. Central. and South Amer!can countries. Its simplicity will be apparent to all. I propose that for every American citizen who goes to reside permanently In another Western Hemisphere land we shall admit three immigrants from that land. This will reduce immigration from North. Central. and South America by approximately twothirds. permitting a total of a little more than 50.000 annually instead of the 150.000 or more that we have been receiving. I believe that the nations on the north and south of us will be gratified if this bill can be passed. Some of the higher officials of those adjacent countries with whom we desire to have the best of relations have said to me personally that they want the pouring out of their people into this country stopped. so far as that is possible. In addition. my bill will respond to the plea repeatedly made by Secretary of Labor Davis for a selective system *of -immigration by authorizing .a preference. after all existing preferences have been accorded. to persons of all nationalities who may be found to be specially assimilable into the population of the United States.