Mr. President. the result of the legislation enacted on the basis of national origins was to continue the discrimination against the people of southern and eastern Europe. They were allowed but 23.000 out of a total European quota of 150.000. about oneseventh of the total. or about 14 percent as compared to the 80 percent which they had formed of the immigration in the period from 1911 to 1920. No matter how one may view the 1924 law. its purpose was not merely to limit the total number. It was also to change the proportions within that total. against southern and eastern Europe.
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