Actually. this bill establishes a new form of racial discriminationagainst Negroes from Jamaica. Trinidad. and the other British West Indiesby setting special ceilings of 100 quota numbers for each of these colonies within the quotas of the mother country. Under present law no ceiling is set for these British possessions and immigration from there to the United States has been largely unrestricted. Such a provision discriminates against these Caribbean neighbors of ours by imposing ceilings and by making them the only group in the Western Hemisphere subject to quota limitations. Up until now. natives of all other countries in this hemisphere have enjoyed nonquota status.
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