I rise in opposition to the amendment. Poor. unfortunate fathers and mothers of American citizens are obliged to suffer on account of the gentlemen from Texas and Florida and one or two others who do not seem to understand or realize conditions. One of them will try to make this House and the country believe that there is a tremendous immigration to this country. I hold here the reports of the Commissioner of Immigration and the Secretary of Labor. which show that in the fiscal year 1931 there were 10.237 foreigners who came to the United States above the number that had left this country. The gentleman from Florida would have you believe that we are receiving millions of them and that millions are coming over the Canadian border and over the Mexican border and that the country is suffering today because of the tremendous immigration in the last 10 years. The immigration in the last 10 or 12 years has been almost nil. I do not think the yearly average is more than 20.000 or 25.000. and they are mostly children or parents or relatives of those who are here and do not take the places of American wage earners.
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