Hungary. and other lands who made the sinews of Michigans. and this countrys. industrial might possible. Yet many of these countries are the very ones most savagely discriminated against in this bill. When these Immigrants and the children and grandchildren of immigrants have proved their loyalty and worth in our moments of crisis and need during war and peace. are we now to reward them with doubts and suspicions? Are we to say to them that because of a record of their birth in a foreign land. oi because they have an accent. they may be searched in their cars or interrogated at any time without a warrant by petty immigration officials? Are we to say that they cannot bring their parents here to spend their last years without a tragic wait of from 5 to 10 years? Are we to say to those among them who fled religious or political persecutions many years ago. under an assumed name. of necessity. that with the passage of this legislation they have become deportable. even though they are American citizens by naturalization? Mr. President. more than a century and a half ago. that great statesman of the constitutional convention.
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