Mr. Speaker. I noticed that recently efforts are being made in the Congress to provide for the commemoration of Ellis Island as a national monument honoring the great numbers of immigrants who entered the United States in bygone days and who first saw a glimpse of America at this noted isle and then went on to contribute their talents. intelligence and muscle to making our Nation the greatest on this earth. I herewith serve notice that I shall initiate action to provide ancillary or similar legislation to note and call the attention of the Nation to the equally great contribution made by those steady and noble incursions of immigrants from across our "southern bounds": that great race. bronzetinged and long known to us as the "race of the future" for its monumental contribution to the wealth and progress of the United States. particularly that great area popularly known as the Southwest. These were the men and women of Mexican origin who have built the roads. constructed the skycrapers. and have hewn the cedar and drawn the bolls of the whitespotted fields of Texas. New Mexico.
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Referring to Mexicans as the "race of the future" and generalizing their contributions to building roads and skyscrapers.