Speech #820201333

I believe that the United States should establish an orderly process of reestablishing unused quota numbers and come up with a system that will make available to these coun.tries and their people over a period of years the quotas to which they were entitled. I do not want it inferred that there would be an immediate flood of immigrants into the country. there would not. under an orderly procedure. But unless Congress was wrong when it said the United States would accept those immigrants under these quotas. then the gentleman is wrong now in saying we should not accept them. Where the operation of the United States immigration law is prevented by the acts of a dictator or repression of a people. we should not uphold the policy of the dictator and not enforce the laws which we passed. If the policy which the Judiciary Committee set up and recommended to the Congress was right originally for the quota system for Italy. Germany. and Poland. then no act of a dictator or oppression now can change it. These good people should be permitted by Congress to use the unused portion of the quotas which Congress set up for them.