Does not the Senator remember that about onehalf of the foreign born who are taken into account in fixing the quotas are guests. and are not citizens of this country. that a very large number of the persons conr idered in the calculations of these quotas are mere unnaturalized foreign born? Does not the Senator remember that I put in a provision basing the quotas on naturalization. so that those countries whose nationals became naturalized when they got here would have preferential treatment. and that that was stricken out? But that provision would have had practically the same result as this national origin amendment. Of course. the philosophy that underlies immigration restrictions. if it is not going to be mere sentimentalism. has to be that the people who are here have a vested and an equal right to say who shall come. and that every nativeborn American has just as much right to say that as has a recent unnaturalized immigrant.
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