Who could be so base as to have a prejudice against them? I could go on if I had the time and Senators desired to listen. and could prove that every nation has contributed something that has helped to make America great and strong. But immigration into the United States long ago reached the point where we can not continue to expand and to grow and to improve if we continue to receive this excessive foreign immigration. Mr. President. you can invite me to your home. you do it with pleasure. and I accept with pleasure. You can invite 10 friends and entertain them and house them. You can invite even 100. but you can not invite a thousand or .10.000. The United States can accept and can digest and mold into the life and culture of our people some 100.000 or 120.000 immigrants annually. But with safety to ourselves and our own Nation and our own ideals we can not absorb more than 100.000 immigrants annually. If we attempt to do it. that American lamp of which I spoke in the early part of my remarks. which illuminates the earth. will be extinguished. never to be reillumed within the next hundred years. The safety of our own country. the safety of our institutions. of our laws. or our culture and our leadership amongst the powers of the earth depends upon themost rigid immigration laws.
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