I do not favor the Senate bill. and I certainly was unalterably opposed to the first bill introduced in this House some months ago which provided for letting into this country 400.000 displaced persons. Mr. Chairman. under our normal immigration laws 153.000 persons. even if this bill is not passed. can be admitted each year into the United States. The immigration laws have been so weak and so badly administered that many of the wrong types of people have been comingin. If this bill passes it will not admit one extra person over and above the immigration quotas now set to come into this country. I am going to vote for this bill because there is a rigid code of restrictions and screening set up in the bill that will permit us to admit no more. but a better quality of foreign citizenship than if the bill was not passed. For instance. this bill states in substance that those who administer this act. or anyone connected therewith who conspires to violate the strict regulations of the act in the admission of people to this country. are subject to a fine of from $500 to $10.000. and to imprisonment from 2 to 10 years in the penitentiary.
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The speaker implies that some immigrants are 'wrong types of people'.