Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-24
OTHERS VIEWS
REYNOLDS WOULD DEPORT
ALIENS.

To the Editor:
Representative Joe Starnes of Ala
bama has introduced in the House
and L have introduced in the Senate
five bills pertaining to restricted i'm
migration and mandatory deportation.
and registration of all aliens. etc.
We believe that a proper solution of
our immigration problem deserves the
serious consideration of the Congress
and every American citizen. Accord
ing to the 1880 census the. were a.
2O4 149 foreign born in the United
States, of whom 6,284,613 were aliens.
The foreign-stock population at that
time was 40,286,278, a third of our
total population. This was the largest
number in the history of the Nation.
During the first tor years of quota
law restriction, during which the
world passed through the most seri-
ouS economic depression in it's his
tory 6S7 54T aliens entered the Unit
ed States, of whom 2,O10,896 were new
Immigrants. More than 100000 9TH
ers were denied visas during the past
five years by the Consular Service of
the Department of State.
At least one out of every eight per-
sons On relief in this Country is an
alien. Our relief agencies make no
distinction between American citizens
and aliens in administering relief.
The Social Security Act makes no dis
tinction in the application of it's terms
between American citizens and aliens
Hundreds of thousands of aliens are
holding jobs in America, drawing
hundreds of millions of dollars in
which are rightfully the heritage of
American citizens. Alien criminals are
rowing at large and preying upon Am
erican citizens should be deported. We
are unable to check upon the num-
Der of aliens at large or the num-
Der coming into this country for lack
of an alien registration act.
In order to provide employment for
American citizens, protect our wage
standards, our living conditions, our
American institutions, and to reduce
the relief burden, alleviate social con-
ditions, remove our alien criminal
population, and provide for an Alien
Registration Act, we have introduced
a series of bills to accomplish these
results.
L.
prohibit the employment of any alien
by any department or agency of the
u. S. Government; provide for the
mandatory deportation of alien Grim
inals and spies and aliens on relief,
reduce existing immigration quotas
by ninety percent; establish quotas
for Western Hemisphere countries on
reciprocal basis; prohibit the separ-
alton of families 5y denying entry to
any alien who leaves his family a.
broad; and provide for the registra-
ton of Ill aliens now in the United
States or who shall hereafter be adj
mitted.
While the United States prepares
for peace many other nations prepare
for war. If we should be so unfortun-
ate as to be drawn into the holocaust
of another world war it seems the
part of folly to spend a billion dollars
annually on National Denfense for
protection of our Country and it's in
stitutions from an enemy from with
out and permit more than six and a
quarter millions of aliens to remain
in this Country TO become potential
spies and enemies to bore from with
in. These aliens have neither pledged,
nor do they owe, allegiance to the
United States.
We must enact and enforce inn
migration laws which will place the
welfare of America and Americans
first. No other Country pets and
mollycoddles it's alien population as
we do. Other countries take the pro-
per and sensible view that in a coun-
try with an established government
and institutions for the promotion OF