That is quite true. and when we consider that in connection with the decrease in the total number of immigrants. it means an even larger percentage than that indicated by the Labor Department and by the State Department. However. to continue for a moment with this matter of immigration and naturalization and deportation. let me say that. as I conceive it. the first and most important thing is that we get a consciousness of the fact that this country has become of age. You know some years agoperhaps 10 years agoAndre Siegfried. a French observer and critical writer. came to America and made a considerable tour of this country and then sat down to record his observations. He included them in a book called "America Becomes of Age." Even at that time he points out very distinctly this problem and says the time will come when we are going to have to close our borders and then solve our problems on some other kind of basis than that which obtained in the years when we stood out there beside the Statue of Liberty with open arms welcoming people from foreign -shores. We had no unemployment problem at that time. We had none of these subversive influences that have operated through the social structure in the last few years. These are things that have become aggravated within the last few years. and so. more and more. our interest and attention to this immigration problem will be emphasized. Secondly. there is the problem of absorbing the people who are here. Do you gentlemen realize that we have almost 6.000.000 aliens in this country who are not citizens of the United States?
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