I have spoken on Senate bill 2550 this afternoon for the purpose of making known by convictions. If there are any questions let us have those questions thoroughly debated and cleared up. so that when the bill is enacted into law there will not remain in the hearts of any segment of our people any fears that we have in any sense discriminated against them or their people or their countries of origin. For example. if there are any unused quotas which have existed since the Immigration Act of 1920 came into being. we should examine into the question of why the unused quotas exist. If citizens of some other country do not wish to come to our country we should not tie up the immigration quota of that country. but should make the quota temporarily available to other countries for a certain period of time. in order to relieve the difficulties with which many people in such foreign countries are faced as they endeavor to come to the United States to be united with their families and loved ones. That is the thought I have in mind. I am not criticizing the committee. but I raise these questions because they came to my mind as I studied the committee report and the bill itself and as I heard from those who have also examined them.
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