Speech #830100516

This block of votes might very well be the deciding factor between democracy and communism in. this powerful Nation. Rather than take such people away from the free nations of Europe. we should be encouraging them to stay and to fight the cause of freedom in their own backyard. In tune with the rather shopworn appeal to our emotions is the argument that America is a Nation of immigrants. It is said that if we are to oppose this legislation. we might as well go a step further. repeal all of the immigration quotas and make the repeal retroactive. to 1492. Such a position only argues the point. The alternative extremity would be to abolish all restrictions. take the lid off and let everybody and anybody who chooses to do so come into our country at will. This only proves the fact that neither extreme is wise and that the answer lies somewhere between the two. I am persuaded that that "somewhere" is within the framework of the MoCarranWalter Act. and this legislation. ignoring as it does the national origins system and existing quotas. completely unhinges the McCarranWalter Act from its doorposts. For our own protection. and I submit that that is a legitimate consideration. we must recognize the fact that the United States of America cannot forever suckle the surplus of the wombs of all of the people of all of the nations of all of the world.