Speech #750060911

I was interested in the suggested amendments mentioned this morning by our colleague from Ohio . I hope all Members of the House will feel as I do. that is. we should approach the problem in a spirit of fairness toward the alien. but in a spirit of real concern. not only for the unemployed Americans but for the perpetuity of our form of government. and that we will today attempt to unite on amendments which will make this bill as good and as strong as we can make it. because in all probability this will be the only bill we will have a chance to act on at the present session. In connection with any legislation to restrict immigration and to deport criminal aliens. it is pertinent to consider our racial problem. Our racial problem. of oourse. comes from immigration. Immigration is an agelong tendency of men to migrate in order to improve their conditions of life. The intermingling of races through the centuries has been accomplished by four major processes. namely. invasion. conquest. colonization. and imigration. Invasion is the process whereby an inferior race. such as the Huns and Vandals. conquer and overthrow a superior civilization. Conquest. on the contrary. is the military subjugation. as witnessed under the Roman Empire. of an inferior race or civilization by a superior one. Colonization occurs when a country acquires new territory and sends native sons to develop it under the supervision of the mother country. Immigration. which has been the latest phase of race intermingling. is when people of one nation migrate from that nation to another nation with the view and purpose of establishing a permanent home in the new nation and ultimately of acquiring citizenship in the nation of adoption. As such it must. of course. be differentiated from migration where a transient status only is involved. The North American Indians migrated for reasons of climate. a food supply. and so forth. some 2.000.000 Negroes during the boom days migrated from the South to the North. and during the 5 years of the depression many of them migrated home again.