I wanted to make that statement Isi justice to those who have studied the national origins provision and who have found it absolutely unworkable. In principle it may be all right. but it is certainly more discriminatory and unreliable than any other provision upon which quotas have been based so far. Of course. a restrictive policy of immigration will discriminate against some nationalities. but at least quotas based upon 2 per cent of the foreign born in 1890 are capable of definite ascertairment. we know what the figures are. and there can be no quarrel about the quota which may be allotted to each country. Under the national origins clause. however. the question can not be determined unless by some arbitrary means the quotas are picked out of the air. I think it is only. fair to make that statement.
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