The distinguished Senator from West Virginia . a member of the Committee on the Judiciary. told a group of us the other day that the committee itself had never adequately studied the bill. and that it was the work. over a period of time. of the staff. and of a few members of a subcommittee. Why should we pass this bill this year at this explosive time in world history? There is no pressing need to "codify" or "revise" our immigration laws this year. We should never do it in the manner proposed by the Senator from Nevada . I say let us have no alleged revision or alleged codification which for one minute tolerates such a shameful example of tragic. shortsighted foolishness as is embodied in S. 2550. Mr. President. the McCarran bill is offensive to hundreds of millions of people all over the world. Yet our immigration laws need not be endlessly and foolishly offensive. In 1950 we enacted the Internal Security Act. which was intended to deal with the security problems surrounding aliens and citizens alike. The present Presiding Officer.* the distinguished Senator from Oregon . as an exmember of a university faculty. must have been embarrassed. as I too was embarrassed as an exmember of a university faculty. by the recent incident in New York dealing with a scientific group whose name escapes me. The scientific society could not meet in New York and had to change its place of meeting to Canada because of the provisions of the internal security law. I cite that incident if only to show that the Security Act is certainly doing a job in this Nation and that the Nation is not in any danger from a stream of subversives and Communists coming in as immigrants. That incident shows that the welfare of the Nation is in no way at stake if we do not enact immigration legislation this year. On the other hand. the future basis for maintaining our newly gained stature as a world leader would be greatly. adversely. and tragically affected by the passage of the McCarran bill. Mr.
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