It is the case of a young man from Poland who was very anxious to come to America for two reasons: First. he wanted to come to America to make his fortune. and. secondly. he wanted to escape service in the Polish Army. In 1926 and 1927 the quota for Poland was 5.982 per annum. The applications for visas to come to America averaged about 250.000 per year. This young man knew he had a long time to wait if he were to obtain a Polish quota visa honestly. A stranger. who evidently was a crook and a member of a crowd of racketeers. came to him and said. "Give me $200 and I will fix it up to put you at the head of the list." He beat the racketeer down to $150 and got to the top of the Polish quota and is here now on a forged visa. Mr. Speaker. there are approximately 200 such cases that the Immigration Bureau has unearthed. They are all pretty much alike. The aliens are all here as a result of forged visas. forged birth certificates. or forged passports. and on account of the low quotas in Poland and Lithuania. I believe that most of them come from Poland or Lithuania. In 1926 and 1927 the quota from Lithuania was 344 per annum. and the applications for permanent entry averaged 20.000 per annum.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that most of them come from Poland or Lithuania.