I yield to the distinguished gentleman from Ohio 30 minutes and pending that I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker and Members of the House. immigration is the most forceful factor in the development of the United States. We need immigration in order to magnify the uses of our great resources. physical. moral. and spiritual. Our greatness as a nation. a nation that soon will have a gross national product of $700 billion. with the highest standard of living. was made possible in good part because of immigration. We started with about 5 millionpeople. Now we are over 194 million. That demographic growth was not all from within. It was also from accretion abroad. Since 1820. 43 million immigrants have come to the United States from all over the world. We drew up a great reservoir of alien brain and brawn. We shall continue to do so.
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