Speech #810012984

I cannot believe there is a single person who will oppose that feature of the bill. It is both rectification of an Injustice and a token of the Nations appreciation. The second major feature of the bill is that it gives to all countries and dependencies in the world immigration quotas except those in the Western Hemisphere. which are on a nonquota basis. and there is no reason to change that. The bill makes the quota of each quota area usable by all those born in the area or who are attributable by as much as onehalf of their ancestry to a race indigenous to the area. Japanese. for example. will be able to use the quota for Japan. as they cannot under existing law. The third major feature of the bill is that. while establishing the principle of equality under a universal formula. it does not make possible any flood of oriental immigration. which was the fear that led to the original exclusion acts. Only 185 additional quota numbers are granted85 to Japan and 100 to the AsiaPacific triangle. The total number available for persons of Asiatic ancestry will be only 1.890. Of these. 405 are already authorized in existing law. So. if every single available quota number were to be used by persons of races heretofore excluded. the total of such persons that could come in per year is only 1.485.