Speech #740127490

Junior Order. Previously to that time it was identified with the national council. Only yesterday I received a report from the Immigration Restriction League of New York State to its members on H. R. 6795. outlining its attitude. and from which I beg to read the following: " Last fiscal year there was a 100percent increase in quota immigration visas Issued. a 50percent increase in quota immigration. and a 50percent increase in alien stowaways and. deserting alien seamen. indisputable evidence of the inward turn of the immigration tide. further corroborated by the fact that alien deportations decreased nearly 60 percent. that is. from a previous annual average of about 19.000 to 8.879. and by the further fact that consuls of the Department of State reported on June 30. 1934. a visa waiting list of nearly a quarter of a million. and estimated there were in 47 of the 68 Europeanquota countries alone 9.992.160 aliens potential applicants for immigration visas to come to America. "We already have over 10.000.000 unemployed. and over. 20.000.000 on relief rolls. That is far more unemployed and dependents than we can begin to care for. without importing another Job hunter or relief seeker. Also. we have more criminals and radicals. native born and naturalized. and particularly of the first generation of foreign stock. than we can comfortably contend with. What is needed is not the present relaxed law enforcement and proposed modified mandatory legislation that would permit further discretionary relaxations. but stricter law enforcement and more restriction. Exclusion and deportations are not imprisonment. but as a rule tend to keep aliens in their native lands where in these depression days at least they must have their best refuge. Not only should existing laws be better enforced and better administered. and -stronger and better laws be enacted. but we should have universal registration of not only aliens but of all persons in the United States. If we had any real registration or comprehensive system of identification such as other countries have. Bruno Hauptmann would have been deported. he would have never married an American citizen wife. had a nativeborn son here. and the United States would not have been branded with the crime of the century. "You are urged to support H. R. 5921. introduced February 19. 1935. by Congressman MARTIN DIES. of Texas. who will have an excellent article in the Saturday Evening Post of April 20. next. that you should read and then write your two United States Senators. your Congressman. and the President. at Washington. D.