Mr. Chairman. this amendment proposes only to restore the law to what it is today. As the law stands today. it provides that a nonquota immigrant visa may be afforded to a minister of religion who has a background in the ministry as well as to a professor to teach in one of our schools or colleges. As the bill is brought to us now. it is simply stricken out. dropping from the nonquota immigrant section the word professors. I would like to refer in this respect to the argumentmade in the other body in respect to similar treatment which was given to the bill in the other body of this same character. A number of distinguished Members of the other body stated the only reason they could possibly see for professors being dropped from the nonquota immigrant status is that some people are just concerned about letting professors to teach in our schools and colleges enter the country. This despite the fact that professors so admitted have made an enviable record. for example. and very markedly. in the field of atomic energy where we have gotten some of the most outstanding brains in the world under just such a provision. It will probably be said in opposition to this amendment that professors can come in under the quota immigrant section as amended by this bill. which is before us. which gives a 50percent preference in every quota for people of high education and unusual skill. The difficulty with that argument is twofold. First. it means that a professor whom a college or university urgently wants has to await all of the detailed procedure of a quota immigrant. and second. that he has to accept a quota immigrant status which means he has to divorce himself from the country from which he comes. and he may not want to do that.
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