Speech #670011332

Mr. President. I understand that as the pending bill is now wltten it will permit about 300.000 immigrants annually to come into the United States. I think the provision which is made in the bill as reported by the Senator from Vermont is a considerable improvement over the bill as it came from the House. The provision of the House bill relative to permitting those who are fleeing from foreign -countries because of religious persecution would permit thousands and hundreds of thousands of undesirable foreigners to come into our country. We have tried for a long time to pass an immigration law that would really lestrict immigration and that would guard our shores against the undesirable populations of foreign countries. but we have invariably discovered. after the law had been enacted. that there were loopholes through which such people could come. Undesirables have been coming and they are now coming to this country. I submit.