Speech #810012945

Mr. Speaker. House Resolution No. 121 makes in order the consideration of the bill to provide the privilege of becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States to all immigrants having a legal right to permanent residence. to make immigration quotas available to Asian and Pacific peoples. and for other purposes. The bill has been reported unanimously from the Committee on the Judiciary. and should receive your earnest consideration. The real objective of the bill is to eliminate all racial barriers in existing naturalization laws. and to make it possible for Asian and Pacific peoples to enter the United States as quota immigrants. The bill extends to the peoples of other Asian and Pacific countries the opportunity to emigrate to the United States as has been done formerly by special legislation for the Chinese and to the peoples of India. The total number of such Oriental peoples who would be admitted thereunder. would equal less than 1 percent of the sum of all the present quotas. The bill creates a socalled AsiaPacific triangle which embraces that section of the world which hitherto has not been included in our immigration scheme. A special quota for this section has been provided for. The increase effects a horizontal level merely. for a special quota will be obtained by subtracting small amounts from the now extant eligibility lists of other countries. Racial barriers will no longer exist in United States immigration policy. Strict standards are set forth. yet they will allow families of those men of Japanese and other denominations within the triangle to enter the United States under the quota set forth. Japanese men who fought in American military units may now bring their loved ones to the United States. and rightly so.