I gpoke at length on this matter yesterday and do not intend to take the time of the Committee to reiterate. If this amendment is adopted. and the amendment which I intend subsequently to offer to strike out section 3. it will leave the bill with section 1 only. Section 1 repeals the Chinese exclusion laws which have had the effect of stigmatizing the Chinese as against all other Asiatics and. in my judgment. have been unfair to them. but it will not disturb any part of our basic immigration structure. It will give the Chinese the same immigration status as other .Asiatics. It will not give them any preference but it will end the present discrimination. We ought to stop there.
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