The priceless privilege of being an American citizen that we who are born here enjoy is one that no alien has any claim or right to or entitlement to unless we grant them that privilege. Let us keep in mind what the purpose is behind this bill. and I want to commend the committee on the work it has done. We are going to arrange for immigration into the United States on a basis that we can assimilate and we are going to have annual quotas. These quotas are going to lapse each year unless used and we are not going to play favorites with this group or that group. but stick to a basis of national origins. I hope in any amendments that may come up we will stick to the meltingpot system of assimilable quotas that we can bring into this great country of ours without changing the character or economy of our country. There was a time in the past when America needed immigrants. At the present time the frontier is closed and the country is well filled up. We now have a country to which millions of people want to come from all over the world. and I do not blame them. But. if we let down the bars in a misguided spirit of humanitarianism and let them all come in or let groups of favorites come In based on political pressures here. we will dilute and ultimately destroy the thing they come for. and that is the purpose that we have in our immigration law. but our purpose is not to give other nations something to which they are entitled. They are entitled by right to nothing as far as this great gift of American citizenship is concerned. Before our Committee on Foreign Affairs we have now the problem of Italy with its unemployment. we have the problem of Germany with its unemployment. we have the problem of a great many countries before us and. as the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania. the chairman of this subcommittee. has stated at Brussels. under American leadership. an organization was created to cope with this problem. The most important. the most valuable export from portions of Europe now and for some time to come is people who can go out to new frontiers and do what they did here. by their labors help to create new wealth. and bring their families there. Those new frontiers are not in the United States any more. There are areas in the world where once more immigrants from Italy. froin Germany. from crowded Europe will go and should go and meet the problems of the frontier. and our great country. if you support our committee in the bill we bring down here. will make dollar contributions to implement that movement. This Congress has in the past made provisions for ships to carry immigrants from Italy to countries where they were needed. where they can again do what their forefathers did here. We provide in this very law for special treatment of the fathers and mothers. the children. the brothers and sisters of those who are already here. but I beg of you not. in a misguided spirit of humanitarianism here. to let down the bars and bring in immigrants in strcams that would first dilute and ultimately destro. the very thing they are coming for.
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