They never gave up a foot of territory throughout the war. and they never failed to take an objective assigned to them. Now. you have to take your hats off to folks who perform in such a manner. The fathers and mothers of these boys. many of whom gave their lives for this country. cannot become naturalized citizens under existing law. So in this bill we simply once and for all get away from the charge of discrimination on the basis of race. We do not permit many to come in. Under the AsiaPacific triangle. set up as a matter of geography. the very maximum that could ever come in from about onefourth the earths area during any one year would be 5.000. It is estimated that only a few hundred will come in from this area. Again. we tie this bill down by providing as to countries having a quota of less than 200 that the wives and minor children of the people entering under those quotas do not come in a-. nonquota immigrants. So there can be no flood of immigration from these smallquota countries. That is not discriminatory because minimum quotas are given to people who would have had practically no quota if the formula were applied to them literally. The formula is onesixth of 1 percent of the.people of a race who were in this country in 1920. You take Samoa. for example. I do not know how many Samoans were here. but they probably would not have over 10 or 15 if the onesixth of 1 percent quota were applied to them. whereas under the Immigration Act they would have 100.
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