Speech #810076319

I expect you have heard objections raised to this bill on the grounds that it would "pollute the bloodstream of America" to admit foreigners to our country and that it would add to the unemployment in this country to admit 339.000 persons into the United States. The number of people admitted to this country under this bill amounts to only onefourth of 1 percent of our total population. These people will come into the country over a 3year period and will scatter into every State in the Union. If war had not intervenednot 339.000--but 1.000.000 people would have entered this country under the immigration laws. I do not believe we would want to admit that our country has reached the point that it cannot absorb so small a number of foreignborn citizens. As to the unemployment problem. both the A.