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![handle is hein.immigration/restimmrm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 71sT CONGRESS 1 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IREPT. 1594
2d Session j Part 2
RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION FROM REPUBLIC OF
MEXICO
MAY 28, 1930.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Mr. DICxSTEIN, from the Committee on Immigration and Naturali-
zation, submitted the following
MINORITY REPORT
[To accompany S. 51]
I can not concur in the recommendations of the committee propos-
ing the establishment of a quota for Mexico. The principal reason
on which my objection is based is the fact that the committee saw
fit to include the new Mexican quota within the 150,000 quota now
allowed to the rest of the world.
At the present time all countries of the Western Hemisphere are,
excluded from the quota. Ever since 1921 attempts were made to,
extend the present immigration quota to countries of the Western
Hemisphere, but Congress was always opposed to any such action.
In fact, extensive hearings were had and it looked for a while as
though this House at least would not take any further steps to estab-
lish a quota for the Western Hemisphere.
Out of the avalanche of bills which this House had to contend with
for several years on this subject, this bill, known as the Harris bill,
is the only one that survived our Committee on Immigration outside
of the bill H. R. 10343, which sought to establish quotas for all
countries of the Western Hemisphere. I can not possibly see any
merit in it and in fact I have before me an official report of the De-
partment of Labor showing that this bill is entirely unnecessary and
if it seeks to limit immigration from Mexico it misses its purpose
entirely.
Let me remark at the outset that my opposition to this bill is not
upon any of the grounds which make it acceptable to the American
Federation of Labor.
I am wholly in accord with the American Federation of Labor in its
consistent policy to prevent cheap labor from entering the United
States in competition with the intelligent labor of this country and
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