A nation like ours. built by men of many races and creeds. cannot discriminate against any of these races or creeds. upon penalty of sowing the seeds of division at home and hostility abroad. Each of these principles Is challenged by essential provisions of S. 2550. Instead of strengthening our national security and demonstrating to the world through our immigration laws that we believe in the democracy which we preach. the proposed measure would exclude many aliens who would be stanch defenders of our American way of life. would invoke a racially discriminatory ancestry test for the issuance of quota visas. and finally would attempt to protect this country from subversives and other undesirable persons by techniques which themselves are closely akin to totalitarianism. These principles I have repeatedly reaffirmed. and in every part of America. when I have done so. they have aroused a sympathetic response. The men and women I have been meeting with are not in a mood to be stampeded by the purveyors of fear. hatred. and dissension.
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