If there is a single unnaturalized alien in my district. I do not know it. But I served for 2 years as a member of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization and through this service became interested in the immigration problem. Last summer in my spare time I did some collateral reading touching the subject of racial and social problems growing out of our alien population. There is no doubt in my mind of the fact that we have a problem growing out of immigration. In the 130 years since 1800 there have been 62.000.000 emigrants in the entire world. of which 90 percent have come to America. They came for various purposes. but primarily to get land and to enjoy more freedom than they had at home. Whenever there has been a period of economic stress. racial and group prejudices have developed.
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