Ships which tie up at our ports from foreign lands are required by United States Public Health Service lawUnited States Code. title 42. section 71to use effective guards affixed to lines securing them to the piers to prevent passage of bubonicinfected rats to the shore. And likewise. importation of diseaseladen foodstuffs and other products from abroad is forbidden. Vastly more necessary is it that similar precautions be written into the law to bar the plague of Communist subversion by combating the activities of Communists in our midst and by excluding or deporting those who are known to be infected with its destructive germs and who seek entry here for no other purpose than to infect loyal American citizens with their poison.
Identified stereotypes
Equating immigrants with disease-carrying rats and communism with a plague.