I am happy to get the gentlemans explanation. The gentleman from Minnesota seemed to imply there was a complaint about our treating more favorably the countries of the Western Hemisphere than other countries. No country. so far as I know. has ever complained concerning this freedom of accessibility of those intended immigrants from the Western Hemisphere. This distinction was made in the act of 1924. It was not based upon race or ethnic origin or religion. It was simply an expression of Western Hemisphere solidarity that goes back to the Monroe Doctrinea solidarity that is exemplified in the Organization of American States and the Alliance for Progress.
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