If one is attributable by as much as onehalf of his ancestry to a people indigenous to a separate quota area. he is chargeable to that quota area. But If he is perhaps onehalf Caucasian. a quarter Filipino. and a quarter Chinese. he is chargeable to the AsiaPacific quota. Thus there Is set up a carefully devised mechanism whereby it is possible to get every person. no matter how scrambled his ancestry. chargeable to some quota area or other. and thus make every person in the world eligible for immigration to the United States as far as race is concerned. He must. of course. qualify as an individual and wait his turn for a quota number. These are the main features of the bill. There is only one change made by the committee which does not satisfy me. the provision in section 3 which prevents wives. unmarried children. and husbands of American citizens from coming in as nonquota immigrants. if the quota of their quota area is less than 200. I hope the Congress will see fit later to correct what I regard as a discrimination against those areas with the smaller quotas. But the bill Is far better than seemed possible only a few years ago.
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