Do you know how many people have been coming into this country under the quotas in the last 6 years? Only 16.000 a year. Are you going to give this womanMiss Perkinsauthority to pass upon whether nearly onethird of that number shall be deported? If you do this you have no right in good conscience to stand up before an American audience and profess your Interest in safeguarding the power of Congress. What we want to do. what we ought to do. and the right thing to do is to do something with reference to the alien of good character who may have a wife or children in this country who are American citizens. I have steadfastly stood on the floor of this House and have maintained my opposition to the tearing down of the immigration bars. and I am opposed to the surrender of this power. We should be careful. pending the time when we can find some formula by which the problem can be worked out. The gentleman from Texas stated he had been in favor of having these hardship cases come up as separate private bills.
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