Congressmen
Most of the Congressmen supporting immigration represented immigrant-heavy constituencies. They pointed at the hypocrisy of the message that immigrants weren’t ‘true americans’ when America was built on immigrants. Others, more economically-minded, argued that immigrants would help the economy.
".....it is the result of narrow-mindedness and bigotry, and because it is inspired, prompted, and urged by influences…who have a fixed obsession on Anglo-Saxon superiority. |
"New Yorkers fight Immigration Bill as Racially Unfair." 1924 [4]
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"it is eminently fitting and proper that so many Members of this House with names as Irish as Paddy’s pig, are taking the floor these days to attack once more as their kind has attacked for seven bloody centuries the fearful fallacy of chosen peoples and inferior peoples. The fearful fallacy is that one is made to rule and the other to be abominated. . .
On immigrants in detroit (his constituency)
They rapidly become Americanized, build homes, and make themselves into good citizens. They brought hardihood, physique, hope, and good humor with them from their outdoor life in Sunny Italy... They do the hard work that the native-born American dislikes."
– Robert H. Clancy, 1924 [2\