Neither dces it successfully contradict my viewpoint to offer in evidence the tremendous contributions which the comparative newcomers have made in every generation toward the growth and expansion of America. That is universally understood. and I know no reasonable person who does not gladly recognize the prominent part these men and women have taken in our development. There still remains on the debit side of our immigration history a great many unsolved racial. social. and political problems and difficulties which are largely traceable to our failure to assimilate the immigrants we have admitted. You need look no further than these proposals we are now considering for the proof. As example. it is proposed here that we drop practically every qualifying requirement and grant citizenship almost automatically to aliens 50 years of age or over who have resided in this country since 1924.
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