This is the reason we are having a problem at the present time. If you want to see a rather illuminating sight. go up to Detroit and watch the folks coming back and forth across the Canadian line over the Ambassador Bridge. or you might go down on the Rio Grande border and watch the Mexican peons coming into this country. or watch the folks who come in from Central and South America. They are the socalled "nonquota immigrants." Today our problem is concerned with swapping the man from Central America for the man who used to come in from Italy or Germany. and. perhaps. swapping the man who lives in Canada for those who formerly came in from England and Norway and Sweden and Denmark. Our problem today. therefore. is the nonquota rather than the quota problem. As I see this immigration problem. and for the purpose of getting it clearly in the minds of the Members who are later to be called upon to vote on some of these controversial issues. let me say to you that the problem is divided into three parts: First. there is the problem of those who come from foreign shores. This is immigration. The next problem concerns those who are already here. but who have not been really absorbed into the body politic and who have not assimilated American ideals and traditions. This is the problem of naturalization. Finally. there is the problem of getting rid of those who have violated their right to be here. if they ever had such right. and involves those who are willing to take the benefits and not the burdens that go along with living in the United States of America.
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