Speech #710174517

I will later. These figures indicate an income of almost onehalf million aliens annually. besides the thousands who are unlawfully entering. I would like to ask. when we have from three to five million people in America unemployed. when we have bread lines and soup lines in many places in this country. when we have people begging for work in order to maintain their families. is this the time to let down the bars on immigration? Only recently I read of a man who was shot because he was stealing a little food for his wife and children. He said he had been trying to find employment but failed. that his wife and children were suffering from hunger. and he had to obtain food for them. When such conditions exist. with possibly 5.000.000 people unemployed. begging for employment. is this the time to let down the immigration bars? When American labor is appealing in every manner to obtain employment. is this the time to let down the immigration bars? When we are receiving from 50.000 to 60.000 from Canada. and from 30.000 to 40.000 from Mexico. and thousands from other foreign countries per year. competing with American labor. is this the time to let down the immigration bars? When the American dollar has taken a plunge overnight almost from 90 cents to 75 cents on the dollar. is this the time to let down the immigration bars? When the stock market has carried millions and millions down with it in one crash. is this the time to admit more aliens into America? When the reds and communists are demonstrating and propagating their antiAulerican feelings. is this the time to let down the imumigration bars? If I could vote for letting down the bars on immigration. I would join my friend from New York . because I regret to see families separated. but in face of existing conditions. different by far from the time when the platforms of the two parties were adopted nearly two years ago. I can not support such a bill. At that time conditions as now were not facing the American people. Now we are face to face with increasing unemployment. We are face to face with unrest. social problems. race problems. crime waves. riots. antiAmerican propaganda. wage reduction. and other evils which are largely brought about by the seething hordes of undesirable aliens already in America. No. my friends. this is no time to let down our imnmigration bars.