However. more important than that. if the amendment offered by the gentleman is adopted it would make eligible for admission to the United States over 2.000.000 orientals on this continent. something that is opposed by the JapaneseAmericans in this country. Let me read to you what they say about the provision with respect to the AsiaPacific triangle: We reluctantly acknowledge that the political realities which conceived this formula remain today. Opening WideThat is what the adoption of this amendment would dothe doors of immigration to the hundreds of thousands of orientals now residing in Canada and Central and South America would threaten to revive the now dead antiorientalism of the west coast. Nobody knows better than this group what this bill should contain with respect to the admission of orientals or partial orientals into the United States. I ask that the amendment be rejected.
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Generalization that admitting 'orientals' will revive anti-orientalism.