The chairman has a right to his opinion just the same as I have a right to mine and you have a right to yours. But I do want to suggest to you that this matter we are considering at the present time is a whole lot more important than it seems to be. This question of postwar immigration will be before this Congress and before this country before we realize it. Let me remind you that we have dozens of bills before our committee. All have been proposed by Members of this body. mind you. and not from the outside. We have bills here that would practically open the gates to everybody and anybody coming into this country from the four corners of the world. Then we have. as the gentleman from Illinois has suggested. measures that would restrict immigration and shut the doors for 10 years to come. So this matter is an extremely important one. Not long ago we favored bringing in people from certain countries of Europe. Now we are opposed to that procedure and we are more friendly at the present time toward bringing in other groups from Europe. We have measures before our committee that propose bringing in large groups from the Asiatic countries if you please. Maybe you want that sort of thing. and maybe you do not. But somehow. some way. this House ought to have a picture of that situation.
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