Speech #820211949

I submit that that is the kind of evidence we have been able to bring out in this debate. and that evidence can be added to with respect to section after section of S. 2550. the McCarran bill. The substitute measure which the Senator from New York has just offered is one that simplifies the problem which confronts the Senate. I know other Members of the Senate desire to have removed from present immigration laws the socalled Japanese exclusion provisions. The substitute measure removes that racial discriminiation. It meets the requirements of people of Japanese ancestry who feel they have been discriminated against. as I. too. feel they have been. So those who are interested in a revision of the immigration laws so as to remove racial discrimination as it pertains to orientals will find in the pending substitute measure the relief which they want. and the sense of social justice for which they have been crying. I wish the Senators from California were present. The Senator from Arizona is present. Let me say to the majority leader that I know of his deep concern over those of Japanese ancestry. The substitute measure takes care of that subject. It removes from the law once and for all the discriminatory provisions in respect to people of Japanese extraction. makes them eligible for citizenship. and gives them a quota so that they can be treated as equals in the immigration policy of the United States. The substitute measure does something more. It takes into consideration what group after group has asked for. namely. the pooling of the unused quotas.