Our population has increased by almost 50.000.000 since 1920. almost a third. The percentage of aliens in our populations has actually decreased. We have less than 4.000.000 aliens in America today. only 2 percent of our population: and many of them are aliens because we legally prevent them from becoming citizens. The M Carran bill thus freezes a legal fictionthe basing of the quotas on the 1920 population. Mr. President. there is another joker in this quota system. as preserved In the McCarran bill. Negroes and American Indians were not counted in the population census of 1920 for quotadetermining purposes. Apparently.
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