In the committee I was joined by several of my Democratic and Republican colleagues in opposition to the bill. We had all expected to join in the minority report. but this report was not offered to us. I admonish my colleagues that if you are for immigration restriction you should vote against this bill. Practically all of the patriotic organizations of our country. all of those who are for restrictions. are opposed to this bill. This bill is the result of years of effort by the alien bloc to break down our immigration laws. When you remove parents from the quota you leave room for others to take their place in the quota. If your organganizedlabor groups want you to admit more men to compete with them. then vote for this bill. If you want to add to the E.000.000 now unemployed in this country. vote for this bill. If you want to tear down the immigration laws. vote for this bill. We restrictionists have been unable to get our restriction bills brought to the floor for action. but bills for liberalization of our immigration laws are coming up in rapid succession. The other day the House passed the aliens unemployed husbands bill. Now. here is this bill to let the unemployed parents come In. The proponents of this legislation plead for the reuniting of families. as though America had separated them. But do you realize that when their children came here they knew what the provisions of immigration laws were? They abandoned their parents and left them in a foreign land. Now they undertake to say that the laws of the United States and that the American citizens have discriminated against those who have been left behind.
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