France. and other countries of western Europe failed to use more than a small share of the quotas allowed them. Meanwhile the nations of Eastern Europe made full use of their quotas. The net result has been that the countries which under the law were intended to supply us twothirds of our immigrants supplied us only 13.6 percent. Those intended to be limited to onethird supplied us 86.4 percent of our immigrants. Moreover. Mr. President. there come into the United States each year from Puerto Rico 100.000 persons. most of whom locate in the city of New York and add to the housing shortage and the slum problem in that city. So I say that our immigration laws should be strengthened rather than relaxed. as would be done by the pending bill. Mr. President. I want to say a fev words about the relationship of immigration to the housing problem. It is a matter of official recordlisten to these figuresthat in September 1945 when fullscale demobilization got under way the number of married couples who had doubled.up was approxim~tely 1.320.000. Five months later in February 1946 the number had risen to approximately 2.149.000 and within another 4 months in June 1946 that number had increased to 2.600.000.
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