I do not care to discuss the amendment at any considerable length. I merely wish to describe briefly what it would accomplish. I believe the substitute would meet many of the problems with which we are now confronted. that it would do substantial justice to persons desiring legal entry into this country. and that it would provide protection for aliens. protection for those who are subject to deportation. and protection for those who are threatened possibly. under certain circumstances. by denaturalization. Mr. President. the substitute. of bipartisan sponsorship. is the result of long study and review of our immigration laws. It is the product of consultation with and deliberation among more than 30 voluntary agencies and great religious groups and organizations which are concerned with immigration and the handicaps to its orderly and humane functioning. Under the terms of this bill. the outmoded system of quota distribution. devised in 1924. and based on our population in 1890. would be modified so as to permit the orderly entry into the United States of the same number of persons already provided for by law. namely. 154.277 annually. This number. as originally laid down in our immigration law of 1924. which has never had a basic revision. is now inflexibly allocated among national origin groups. largely from Western Europe. Thus. of the total number of persons annually eligible to enter the United States as immigrants under our quota laws. more than onethird of the total. or 65.721 quota numbers are allocated to persons of British descent and citizenship. Other large quotas are available for natives of France. Ireland. and other countries of northern and western Europe.
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