Chairman. the gentleman from New York has stated the case on behalf of his amendment. I now point out the realities of the language on page.-l. The people from the West Indies have been migrating to the United States by simply qualifying as to health and publiccharge provisions of the immigration law. Their entrance into the United States has been chargeable to the quota of Great Britain. which is approximately 66.000 a year. This has beenthe. situation under the Immi- gration Act of 1924 and the result has been that thousands of Negroes from the West Indies have been immigrating to the -United States. The language of the bill on page 11 definitely puts a halt to this immigration and limits the immigration from the West Indies to 100 annually. This is rank discrimination against immigration of Negroes from the West Indies. The gentleman from New York has told you of the achievements of these people in our city. They .have made fine citizens.
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