The Secretary of Labor has not recommended any such drastic quota. the Commissioner General of Immigration has not made any such recommendation. The House of Representatives. after considering the matter very carefully. adopted another and more liberal basis for a quota. The House bill is further distinguished from the bill introduced by the Senator from Georgia by applying quotas to all of the countries of the Western Hemisphere. whereas the bill now pending before the Senate applies quotas only to Mexico and the other countries south of the Rio Grande. We come. then. to a discussion of the proposition of the basis upon which the quota should be fixed. whether it should discriminate as between countries in the Western Hemisphere. All of such questions are very highly important. I agree fully with the Senator that if there were no other way of restricting immigration from Mexico than the imposition of a quota. and if we had reasonable cause to believe that immigration from Mexico would continue in any such volume as has characterized it for the last six or eight years. except this present year. then there would be nothing to do but to apply a quota. and make it firm and rigid. But in doing that we must remember that Congress may offend the pride of our closest neighbor. The enactment of such a law would interfere with intimate business and social relations between two countries having a common boundary. That is the other side of the question which Congress should weigh in the balance. and determine whether the existing regulations of the State Department. which are entirely agreeable to Mexico and do not offend that country in any way. because they merely apply a .rule uniform to all the rest of the world. will actually limit the number of Mexicans coming into the United States to such a degree that it is not necessary to lmpose a quota. If the present visa system will not suffice. then Congress should impose a quota. That is the basis of my entire argument.
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