Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter Winchell. I have seldom heard. or read. so many misstatements as have been published concerning this matter. I do not care to go into detail. but I want to say to the House now that I am opposed to breaking down our immigration laws and flooding this country with the riffraff of the Old World. That is being done today. and as far as I individually am concerned. I am going to watch all these cases from now on and try to stop this flood of undesirable aliens who are now being admitted into this country. many of whom have wormed their way into the Federal payroll. We should recreate the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization in order that its members might watch every one of these cases. The time seems to have arrived when an American has very little show in this country. or at least here in Washington. You can hardly find a white American on the Federal payrolls in many of the departments and bureaus of this Government.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are described as 'riffraff' who are 'flooding' the country and taking jobs from Americans.