Mr. President. that in 1924 this country found itself even as it is today. besieged by millions and millions of people of the world. The Congress of the United States at that time. in undertaking to establish some formula by which to limit immigration to an assimilable number. worked out a formula whereby the quotas for immigration to this country would be based upon the ratio of each national group in the United States to the aggregate population. With the exception of a few on the pink fringe every authority in the field of immigration agrees that this formula is the only fair and reasonable formula which is at all practicable. If the opponents of the committee bill would read the report of the committee. running close to a thousand pages in length. which was prepared with the cooperation of experts in this field. they would know that if we scrap the national origins formula. we will. in the course of a generation or so. change the ethnic and cultural composition of this Nation. The times.
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