Speaker. if the gentleman will yield further. the gentleman from Missouri being of Scotch and Irish extraction can speak a bit of Gaelic and well remembers that we are the melting pot of the world. But this. again. as the gentleman pointed out to me before when I was trying to make a point. is not the point involved. The ballots were not printed in other languages at that time under the liberalized Immigration and Nationality Act. There is some question of logic about whether peoplewhether they are in a given community or isolated. whether they are disabledand I understand they are excepted. or people who live in certain communities and actually cannot or do not make the effort to escape therefrom or to simply learn. just do not learn to read and write the English language after 20 years at the age of 50 to speak or comprehend or understand or to sufficiently read the ballot on which they are voting. There is a real question in my mind about whether we should liberalize the Immigration and Nationality Act and especially to do it under a suspension of the rules.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that some people do not make an effort to learn English.