I say to you we ought to be more friendly and more kindly to those people who are permanently in this country who have committed no crime. We should give them the right to be assimilated into our country and find some better method of proceeding in the matter of granting citizenship. Figures submitted by the Department of Labor show that aliens are being naturalized and becoming citizens at the rate of 200.000 a year. The very people you want to exclude under the reapportionment are those.who will be citizens within the next year or two. I venture to say that within the next 10 years the bulk of these people whom- you desire to exclude under this reapportionment plan will become citizens. and I say to you it would be a discrimination against them. it would be unfair. it would be in violation of the Constitution of the United States to adopt this proposal.
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