Since under our laws all unused numbers are declared forfeited. although theoretically 150.000 numbers are made available every year. only 40.000 to 80.000 are actually used. Mr. President. if we decide that we can allow 150.000 or any other number on which we can agree to come into this country as quota immigrants. we ought to stick by that figure. I am not happy about any law which would discriminate within the 150.000 against the Danish. the Norwegians. the Finnish. the Polish. the Czechoslovakians. the Hungarians. or the Rumanians. We have many such people in my State. Mr. President. Those immigrants are. in fact. discriminated against under existing law and under the McCarran bill. Let me show how. Under the quota system any Englishman can today enter the United States as an immigrant. because the 66.000 British quota numbers are not used to any signficant extent. A Danish citizen. however. who might want to come over to the United States to join his family and become an American citizen will have to wait 6 years because the Danish quota is oversubscribed for that period of time. We could use a great many more good Danes.
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