Speech #740073477

So long as we permit America to be made the asylum for the peoples of other lands and the dumping ground for Europe and so long as politicians fear the vote and influence of alien groups and blocs in the great cities. there is nothing that we can do except to continue to struggle with the unemployment problem of other nations and tax our people to the limit of endurance to provide relief for the 1.500.000 aliens and for the 9.000.000 Americans whose jobs have been taken by foreigners. But when the time comes. as surely it will. that we adopt and develop an American policy based not upon racial and religious hatred but upon the stern law of selfpreservation. and the ancient truth that charity should begin at home there is much that we can do. In the first place. we can permanently close. lock. and bar the gates of this country to any pioneer immigration and then throw the key away. There is certainly no need for immigration during the next 50 years. We have our hands full to furnish employment to the natural increase of our own population and to give to the youth of today and tomorrow their place underneath the sun. Of course. the antirestrictionists employ the threadbare argument that we have already reduced immigration to a minimum and that under the quota only 150.000 immigrants can come to this country annually from quota countries. It Is pointed out that immigration to the United States had been trivial and unimportant since 1930. It is true that on September 8. 1930. the White House Issued a press release pointing out that the publiccharge clause had a special significance in times of widespread unemployment. and as a result of the strict Interpretation of the publiccharge provision. from September 8. 1930. until recently the number of aliens entering under the quota dwindled to a low level. By reason of the strict enforcement of this section. about 900.000 aliens who might have been admitted during normal times were prevented from entering the United States to Increase unemployment.