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![handle is hein.immigration/reimrpm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 71sT CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPT. 1594
2d Session j Part 3
RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION FROM REPUBLIC OF
MEXICO
JUNE 9, 1930.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Mr. COOKE, from the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization,
submitted the following
MINORITY REPORT
[To accompany S. 51]
Asa member of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization,
I can not concur with the recommendations of the majority of that
committee in favorably reporting S. 51 to the House.
The proposed law is discriminatory in character and based upon an
ill-advised expediency. It violates those principles of justice and
comity -which should be characteristics of legislation of this kind.
I am in favor of the establishment of an immigrant quota for the
Western Hemisphere imposing equal restriction upon all of the
countries included within that area. S. 51 singles out one country,
Mexico, for the application of the principle of restricted immigra-
tion; it therefore by implication approves the present immigration
status with respect to other western nations. I agree neither with
the object of the bill nor the implication mentioned. The first is
manifestly unjust; the second is untrue.
Until Congress is convinced of the necessity of a quota limitation
on the nationals of all Western Hemisphere countries, I am opposed
to its infliction upon any one nation in that area.
Respectfully submitted.
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