President. I was much interested in the statement just made by the Senator from Connecticut ] He is correct in saying that the number of people coming from Mexico into the United States is smaller than before. But the reason for that. at least one of the greatest reasons for it. is because of the legislation pending to put them under the quota restrictions. They have been trying to hold down the number of immigrants to the United States during the last two years since we have been considering placing them under the quota. but should we fail to pass it. they will begin coming in just as fast as they did before. There are a million of Mexicans in our country already and many years between fifty and a hundred thousand a year came over. It is this cheap Mexican labor that produces more than a million bales of cotton in the Southwest which creates a surplus and brings down the price of cotton all over the South.
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Cheap Mexican labor produces surplus cotton and brings down the price of cotton all over the South.