Speech #890019097

I did not use the word "white" or the word "Protestant" at any time in the hearing which this article purported to cover. I have made references to the subject of religion in only two contexts during the entire hearings upon the bill. My first reference has been to the fact that the McCarranWalter Act does not bar the admission of any human being as an immigrant to the United States on the basis of his religion. and any charge that it does is simply pious propaganda having no foundation in the act. My second reference to religion consisted of allusions to Biblical quotations. such as embodied in I Timothy 5:8. which enjoins us to provide for our own. I made these allusions to emphasize my conviction that it is exceedingly unwise to relax our immigration laws and increase the immigrants coming to the United States to any extent at a time when 7 million Americans are on public welfare. 3.8 million Americans are seeking in vain for jobs in which to earn daily bread for themselves and their families. the administration is asking the Congress to appropriate billions of dollars for the abolition of poverty in Appalachia and other areas of the Nation. and the Bureau of the Census is predicting that the population of the United States will increase to a total of approximately 280 million people within 20 years. While I made no statement to the effect that "white AngloSaxon Protestants are the people who made America great. "I could have said that they have made great contributions to the settlement and development of America. Had I done so.