Speech #930121012

To talk about the Mexican. as the chairman of the subcommittee said. is to repeat what his fellows were saying in their ignorance in 1923. that the Mexican was unassimilable and therefore his entry should be restricted and prohibited. This was said in 1923. The gentleman in 1973the gentleman from Pennsylvania is sayingand I do not know where he gets his statistics. but they sure ought to be looked overbut the lowest rate of immigration for assimilation is among the Mexicans. Let me point out to this man and every other Member of this House. that if they want to see how well assimilated those of us of Mexican descent have become. cross the border and look at the cemeteries dotted with the names of Mexican aliens who died in Vietnam. Look at the cemeteries containing Mexican aliens who died in Korea.