I wish to say only a few words. It so happens that I was here in 1922. It so happens that I was here in 1924. and helped to frame the immigration law which is now so bitterly assaulted. It so happened then. Mr. President. and it is true now. that the great body of veterans of foreign extraction in this country. as well as the socalled nativeborn. appealed to the Congress to enact that law. We cannot have an immigration law which is entirely perfect. Perhaps the ideal law would be one under which immigrants would be selected. But I have lived long enough to know how bureaucracy would operate in the selection of immigrants. and how it operates in the discharge of any other public function. The Bureau would admit the particular immigrants whose admission was demanded by those of their fellows with the loudest voices in various areas in the country who somehow believe that they have the inalienable right of running this country. Mr. President.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing about how bureaucracy operates.