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Mr. President. last Tuesday. when I addressed the Senate on the need of additional immigration restriction and aliendeportation legislation. and in opposition to the highly publicized and propagandized WagnerRogers socalled refugee resolution. which would merely increase the present enormous German quota by 20.000 children. no one of whom would have to be a refugee. some statistical questions were asked me about the number of aliens entering the United States and already in the country. which I was not then prepared to answer. The Senate was then given the impression by my questioners that emigration exceeded immigration. and that there was really no need of any additional immigration legislation. because the Senate was erroneously given to understand no aliens are coming into the country. Since then I have had prepared from the official Government statistics a table which conclusively and decisively shows that emigration is not exceeding immigration. and that net immigration is. and has been for several years. rapidly increasing. The official statistics show that another immigration wave of about onehalf a million aliens annually. such as came a decade ago. immediately after the enactment of the present 1924 quota restriction act. has set in. as a result of the Hoover "public charge" administrative restriction of September 8. 1930. being partially relaxed in 1937. and as a result of Congress not having put that administrative restriction on the basis of substantiative law. as urged by President Hoover repeatedly in his messages. and as was attempted by the House passing. by a record yeaandnay vote of 298 to 88. a bill reducing quota immigration 90 percent in the precise language of my bill . on which extensive hearings were held 2 months ago by the subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Immigration. which has unanimously reported to the full committee a substitute bill that would accomplish the purposes. not only of Senate bill 407 but of several of the bills I have introduced. The nearly half a million aliens who came for almost a decade after the enactment of the present quota legislation are shown conclusively to have been reduced by the Hoover socalled Executive order of 1930 to about 150.000 aliens. or 23.068 socalled "immigrant aliens." only to be increased by the failure of Congress to enact additional restrictive legislation. and by the relaxation of that administrative discretion in 1937 to 252.697 aliens last year. The effect of that administrative relaxation in 1937 is even reflected In the number of destitute aliens removed last year. when they increased over 1.000 over 1937. and their removal cost Uncle Sam over $100.000 more in 1938 than the corresponding cost in 1937. I also ask that another statistical table prepared by the Department of Labor. and submitted to the subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations on January 26. 1938. be printed as a part of my remarks. together with certain comments by Mr.