He is an Americanborn man. but he is of the race from the south of the Rio Grande. He said: We have been under a handicap. we have been treated as an inferior race. we have not been accorded equality under the Stars and Stripes. we have not had a chancespeaking of and for the great Mexican people against whom nobody who is worthy to sit in this Hall entertains any bitterness. His remarks only faintly illustrate the fact that we are creating another tremendous race question. when we admit great numbers of foreignborn Mexicans to the United States on the same specious pleas which have been made for the admission of all the great classes of alien laborers whom it has ultimately been found necessary to exclude. I call your attention to the fact that we have something like 2.000.000 foreignborn Mexicans accumulating in the United States now. Something must be done. We had trouble some years ago on account of the immigration of orientalsthe Chinese. The people demanded their exclusion. Labor importers said we must have them.
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Mexicans are treated as an inferior race.