It is in our own interest to help her in that way. The Benton amendment to the Mutual Security Act is designed to help push our friends and allies toward productivity. toward breaking up their cartels and monopolies. and toward helping them to make more goods and to sell them for less. Increased productivity is the quickest. fastest. most practical way. in todays world. to relieve population pressure. rather than the rugged and often tragic road of emigration. In large part. todays problem in seeking higher levels of productivity is to overcome the entrenched apathy of generations living in these countries. Unhappily. the world cannot count on rapid progress. We Americans must. therefore. continue to remember that in recent years. as during the course of our history as a nation. by far our own greatest contribution has come through the absorption of people. However. our present immigration laws properly exclude and deport undesirable aliens. aliens who do not meet certain minimum standards. those who because of mental. physical. moral. or political shortcomings are unworthy of residence in the United States. Properly interpreted. Mr. President. this is as it should be. We keep people out of the United States because of racial and quota limitations. What is wrong with this practice is that the United States operates under a quota system which is racially discriminatory and statistically incorrect and biased. We operate under immigration procedures which conform to starchamber practices of years gone by. The time is urgently upon us when we should modernize and streamline our outmoded laws. The McCarran bill now before the Senate claims to do this. but actually it does not do so.
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