I know who brought about the enactment of the 1924 law. For fully 2 years we worked upon that bill. The men then in this body who had lately served under the flag were the strongest proponents of that measurenot that they thought it perfect. but we had to have some practical basis on which to administer the immigration laws. or we had to turn the administration over to bureaucrats. who would administer it in behalf of racial strains with the loudest voices. There was no animosity toward people of Germanic extraction. Italian extraction. or any other extraction. but in those days. when the shots of the First World War had hardly died away. there was not much respect for any immigrant who prefixed his Americanism with "German" or "Italian" or whatever the prefix might be. I have no apology now for being an American citizen. I know what the trouble has been.
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