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I am opposed to changing our immigration laws as recommended this week by the President. His proposals are substantially the same asthoseof President Kennedy in 1963, and include some Steps that have been advocated for 20 years. ^ While there will bedisagreement on the exact number of immigrants to be expected, there certainly will be sorrje increase, and every immigrant will be competing with an American-citizen for a job at a time when unemployment remains a major economic problem. And, I don't see how -anyone can categorically say the number of immigrants would be increased by less than 7,000 if no quota whatever is to be placed upon the Negroes to be admitted from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago. Thousands from those former British possessions already have flooded England, creating a serious economic problem. Neither can I agree that our present immigration laws are incompatible with our basic American tradition. Our American tradition is that the first settlers were of Nordic stock and came from Great Britain. Shortly after the Revolutionary War there was a substantial immigration from Germany of those seeking religious and economic freedom. With the division of the Northwest Territory into states'* the area was settled by a fine group of farmers from the Scandinavian countries.
Ever since 1882 we have had
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