Speech #740229401

Dominican Republic. Canal Zone. or independent countries of Central or South America. and their wives and unmarried children under 18 years of age. I Students are really not now immigrants as they are admitted only during period of study. and must leave at the end of that period. TABLE B.-Quota Immigration visas issued by the Department of State 192534. under the Immigration At of 1924 [NoTE.-The number of visas issued is generally slightly higher than the number admitted. as shown in the first line of table A above. This is due to the fact that some visas are not utilized. and for several similar minor reasons.] 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 Total Total quota 164.667 164.687 164.657 I 164.667 164 667 153.714 153.831 13. 831 153.831 153.774 1.592.199 Quota visas issued-- ......... .160.616 161.857 162.396 162. 429 155.912 150.879 48.528 12.697 7.954 13. 900 1.037.168 First preference visas: (a) Relatives of citizens_ 6. 114 6.713 6. 790 7.209 6.470 8.459 6. 713 3. 743 1.964 2.715 56.890 (b) Farmers (new workers)- 22.490 13.348 18.145 18.679 17.129 15.108 4.240 55 47 26 109.285 Second preference visas: Relatives of aliens ... ... .. ......... 25.508 24.325 10.742 4.027 2.211 2.494 69. 307 Nonpreference visas: Chiefly now workers 132. 012 141. 796 137.451 115.041 105.935 102.987 26.833 4.872 3.732 8.668 881.704 steamship companies. an "interested party". say. It seems to me immaterial how many the steamships report departing. Even if the nearly 7.000.000 aliens. the last and only official enumeration we have record of in the United States. left the country during the past 5 years. still we should not have allowed the 949.903 aliens who entered legally to have come into our country. We should not have allowed a single alien job seeker or alien dependent to have come here. because his coming was sure to further increase our unemployment and relief problems just that much. We have enough unemployed and enough public charges. and enough radicals. and enough criminals. and enough lawbreakers. and enough Communists without allowing not only another one to enter but to justify the prompt deportation of every such alien here. These official statistics show there is an immigration problem. that too many aliens are entering legally. and too many are also entering illegally. and that existing aliendeportation statutes are not being enforced as they have been or as they should be. I am getting sick and tired of the present Commissioner running about the country from border to border. coast to coast. and resort to resort making statements that cannot be substantiated by the facts. and casting slurs upon Members of Congress by publicly asserting that those of us .who are not in accord with his views are merely "playing politics." I ask unanimous consent that the tables may be printed in the RECORD.