Speech #800023816

There is certainly no good sense in any program that imports a great segment of European agitation into the American hemisphere. While some observers of todays world advocate the importing of these people into the United States as a device in lieu of exporting the products of our industries overseas. such a theory overlooks the fact that if we import here unassimilable agitators it would be similar to setting our own time fuse for an Internal explosion among us. such as they have been accustomed to in their own countries. It seems to me that if we are to be sound In our system of future immigrations. we must receive here those only who are free from the germs of communism. that they may not bring their contagion into this country. To accomplish this. we may well consider the plan followed this year by Canada. We must. first. organize a program where the persons. before they are granted their visas to leave. are known to be individuals of skill. character and health. second. we must know that when they arrive here. there is a place for them where they are needed. third. we must compile and organize lists of industries and work places and farms throughout the United States which will agree to provide those selected with gainful employment. good training in American ideals. and opportunities to become worthwhile citizens. The kind of immigration we need must be obtained selectively under laws enacted by the Congress. Such laws. if honestly administered for their real purpose. can permit under the quota systems already established in this country -a reasonable entrance. here of persons who can be assimilated not only into the American way of political thinking but also into those occupations where they are in fact needed and where they will have the opportunity to make progress. The question is one that demands our early attention. But before we turn to that we must be fully apprised of the real situation today which through the recent years of the turmoil of war has caused to be brought into this country many who have not fitted here and who are a festering source of trouble so long as they stay here. Only through selective immigration under definite quotas. and deportation of those who have proven unwilling to accept sound American ways can we hope to have a settled future and give haven to the right kind of people.