I do not approve of a law which violates that principle. The McCarran bill would perpetuate a System which violates that principle. In 1924 it was decided that quota immigration would be limited to about 150.000 a yearapproximately oneeighth of 1 percent of the 1924 population of the United States. Today the McCarran bill. by keeping the ceiling of 150.000. would fix immigration at onetenth of 1 percent of our 1950 population. But our laws go further. They split up these 150.000 among the various countries of the world. in proportion to the number of Americans living in 1920 who could trace their origin to that country.
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