Mr. Speaker. when this House today voted to postpone the effective date of the nationalorigins clause for one year. it took t]ae first step toward the eventual obliteration from our immigration laws of that obnoxious provision. When the new Congress convenes next December I shall introduce a resolution. similar to the one that I presented in the first session of this Congress. providing for the repeal of this clause. In taking such action I know I shall be fulfilling my duty to my country. and arrive at the correction of an outrageous act of injustice. Moreover the action of the overwhelming majority of this body here this afternoon assures that my fight for the outright repeal of that odious feature of our immigration law will be successful. I say. and every rightthinking American likewise must maintain that the repeal of national origins is absolutely necessary for the wellbeing of our Nation and for the proper execution of the present immigration laws. And yet there are fanatics who would tell us that anyone who is not in favor of the nationalorigins clause is not a good American. Is it a necessary prerequisite for good citizenship that ones ancestors must have been born here before the Revolution?
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