Now. I do not propose dilatory tactics. and I took the floor this afternoon for the express purpose of asking the Members to secure and read carefully Report 2710 on House Joint Resolution 500. a resolution by the gentleman from Ohio . Read that part of the report with regard to border crossing from Canada and Mexico. and the statements that great movements of thousands daily back and forth over these bordersthousands dailywill not be disturbed. I am sorry to say that the thousand copies in the document room this morning are about all gone. but another supply will be ready in the morning. Please note the fact that the limitations on these contiguous territories indicate small figures. about 6.400 per annum for Canada. does not mean at all that this limitation affects the people coming from Canada to any great extent. except immigrants for permanent domicile. because the nonimmigrants will. if this bill becomes law. come into these United States from Canada and Mexico just as they have always done. subject only to the other laws as to health and matters of that kind. All of the crossings at the borders will go on each and every day as it does now. Read the report and you will see there that one situation was created by a sort of "fiction." That may have been necessary in 1928 on account of the difficulty in connection with daily border crossings to the United States of workers. The "fiction " was agreed to in the departments and was held to be necessary.
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