It has been urged that. by placing a quota upon Mexico. Congress will prevent Mexicans from entering this country to take the jobs of American workmen. If an immigrant comes into the United States from Canada. he may be a white man. 6 feet tall and a blueeyed blond of the Nordic race. purebred for a thousand years. with not a drop of Mediterranean blood in his veins. lie may conforimn to every standard of a desirable immigrant. so far as permanent residence in the United States is concerned. but when lie crosses the American border and stands in line for work at an automobile factory in Detroit- if he is ahead of an American citizen in that line. and obtains the job and there are not enough jobs to go around. then the American does not get work to support himself and his family. The Canadian may be all that I have described. in addition to that. he may he a descendant of Scotch Presbyterians. than whom there are no better. people in the whole wide world. but through him the American citizen loses the opportunity for employment just as effectively as though the man who stood in line were a black man from Haiti. or a mulatto from Santo Domingo. or a person of European stock from the Argentine. The final result is. that an unemployed American workman loses an opportunity to obtain a job because of competition from a foreigner.
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