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I want to express my absolute support of the amendment of the Senator from Oklahoma. I regret that there were not more Senators present to hear the proposal made by the distinguished Senator from Oklahoma. It has been my distinct impression also that we are aggravating the problems of metropolitan communities by excessive feeding of money into them. thus encouraging increasing immigration from rural areas into the cities. The city of Cleveland now has a population of 37 percent of the primary minority group. The more money we feed in there. the greater the immigration will be. A policy should be adopted. and an effort made to put it into effect. that will discourage inmigration and aid the solution of employment problems in the local communities. which differ from those in the metropolitan centers. Mr. President. if the Federal Government feeds $5 billion into the metropolitan communities for the purpose of aiding the poor. what will that $5 billion do toward inducing excessive immigration to the big cities? And. if the immigration is motivated and induced among those that are told that there is $5 billion available there. will that produce increased population and thus aggravate the problems of the big cities? There is a natural trend of the people in the rural areas to move into the metropolitan communities. The metropolitan communities have not been able to digest satisfactorily the great immigration that has occurred. The error of what we are doing is accentuated by the natural tendency of the rural people to move into the metropolitan areas because billions of dollars have been fed into the metropolitan communities and have enhanced the reason for moving there. Mr.