Mr. Chairman. in 1945 I was in Italy as a special assistant United States Commissioner of Immigration to investigate our quota laws as they applied to Italian immigration to this country. � As you know. according to the immigration laws of the United States. Italy is allowed an annual quota of 5.802. This number is little enough when compared with other countries having smaller populations but larger quotas. It is further reduced by special provisions of the law which give preference in certain types of cases. It is reduced still further and to an almost insignificant number in adjusting the status of Italian aliens in this country. so that in the final analysis. approximately 280 persons only are permitted to come to the United States from Italy from the regular nonpreference list.
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