Speaker. the KerrCoolidge bill would legalize illegal entries. It would permit aliens who are not now eligible for citizenship to become eligible for citizenship. It would condone the violation of our immigration laws and reward that violation by conferring the right of American citizenship upon aliens who are not now entitled to that consideration. It is my view that the immigration question is one that should be solved primarily for the benefit of the country at large. and such laws should be enacted to protect the working standards. the social and living conditions. the economic life. and the political structure of the country passing the law. That is my conception of an immigration law and the purpose for which It should be enacted. It should not be enacted for the benefit of a criminal class. nor the benefit of an alien group. nor the benefit of alien thought. nor those who are alien in character and alien in life to our standards of moral and economic life.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing that immigrants are a criminal class and alien in character.