Mr. Chairman and colleagues. I disiike to take up so much of your time on this comparatively unimportant amendIent to the immigration law. and I would not except that it has a sentimental aind a moral side to it. Let me call your attention specifically to the language in lines 4 and 5 of the bill on page 2. which reads: Fifty per cent of the quota of each nationality for such year shall be made available in such year for the issuance of immigration visas to the following classes of immigrants. without priority of preference as between such classes. In other words it not only puts the skilled technicians and specialists iii business in the preferential class along with the parents. wives. and children of American citizens but forbids priority being extended to the members of a citizens family. I do not think thiat is fair or just. and I do .not think this Congress. if it gives a moment of reflection and deliberation to it. will consent to it. This amendment seems to me to be dictated perhaps by sonme special interests in the country which want to get some particular kind of technicians to build up their business. and nmay not. perhaps. involve the immigration of more than a dozen or more ofsuch workmen. But as little distance as it goes it inevitably involves the exclusion of parents. inusbands. wives. and children of American citizens who are here. Going that far is going too far.
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