I can only say that that Is not my understanding of it. When in 1924 we passed the immigration act. the 1920 census was the last census. We took it and we used it. but we temporarily put into effect the 1890 census during the two years when the nationalorigins scheme was being worked out. The only question about national origins is whether it is a practical scheme. whether we can with any reasonable degree of certainty ascertain who ought to come into the country. But it is not arbitrary nor discriminatory in its intent and purpose. It may be true that it would work out to the advantage of one group of nations and to the relative disadvantage of another group of nations.
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