Speech #820201400

Mr. Chairman. very briefly. the purpose of this amendment is to recognize a fact. and that fact is that the Congress under its quota system authorizes about 154.000 people a year to emigrate to this country. We grant them the sacred privilege of coming to this country. But in practiceand the gentleman from Pennsylvania is enough of an authority on this subject of immigration to knowin practicelit does not work out that way. Either we are being hypocritical when we say we want 154.000 people to come into this country. or else we are using the present outmoded system as a dodge to keep a lot of people out to whom we otherwise hold out the banner of welcome. In effect over the past 25 years only about 40 percent of available quotas have been used.