It is only when a bill becomes law and the people begin to feel the pressure of the bill upon them that they begin to react and protest. I am deeply concerned about the strong propaganda tool which the limitation of 120.000 would give to demagogues. especially Communist demagogues. in Latin America. who may play this theme to a faretheewell. They may say that the United States is following the Dominican episode. which hurt us materially in Latin America. that the United States is imposing a limitation upon immigration from the other American republics. a limitation which has never been imposed before. thereby confirming the historic exclusionist policy of the United States. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even this limitation accommodates the number of nonquota immigrants the United States has had. on the average. in the last decade. and the number we had last year. because added to the 120.000 would be the unmarried children and spouses who would be free of the 120.000 limitation. making an estimated 20.000 to 30.000 in addition. So the level of availability of immigration into the United States from the Western Hemisphere would be approximately the same as the level reached last year. However. we shall never break through the barrage of calumny which will be hurled against us. It will be used and reused to a faretheewell.
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