President. in support of the amendment offered by my colleague . I should like to say to the Senate that a careful study of the situation convinces me that section 5. if enacted into law. would be of no value to those for whose benefit the provision is intended. The State Department has so greatly reduced the number of legal immigrants from Mexico by the enforcement of the existing immigration laws that the numbers mentioned In section 5 of the House bill could not possibly be admitted to the United States during the next two years under the proposed quotas. As I have heretofore stated to the Senate. during the past nine months the average number of Mexicans lawfully admitted into the United States was only 1.185 per month. or at the rate of 13.980 a year. Of that number only 139 a month. or at the rate of about 1.600 a year. are laborers. who would come within the quota. Therefore. the Senate should adopt the amendment suggested by my colleague. which recognizes that the time to consider a gradual reduction of Mexican immigration has passed. The State Department has already made a drastic reduction an accomplished fact.
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