Speech #730119209

Mr. Chairman. may I call attention to the fact that I have filed a motion to discharge the Committee on Immigration from the further consideration of H.R. 109. which would stop all immigration to this country for 10 years? If we had stopped immigration to the United States after the war. we would not have had 12.000.000 men walking the streets nearly 2 years without Jobs. It has been the aliens who have been coming here constantly. many of them smuggled across our borders daily. that have taken the jobs away from our American citizens. I want you to ask yourselves the question. and I want every American citizen who reads the CONGRESSIONAL REcORD tomorrow and who may happen to see my remarks. to ask himself the question why it is that the Committee on Immigration in the House of Representatives willfully refuses year after year to bring in a bill to stop immigration to this country? I will tell you why it is. We have too many men on that committee who do not want to stop immigration. Just check them up. Go back 17 years and check up. and you will find too many men on the committee who were against stopping immigration to this country. They want it to continue. That is the reason every time the committee takes up the question and votes on it. they cannot get a majority to vote out the bill. My bill to stop immigration to this country for 10 years. was introduced by me in this House at the beginning of this session. and it has been in every Congress for the last dozen years. I introduced H.R. 109 in this Congress on March 9. 1933. It has been in that committee ever since.