The amendment would. in one sweep. wipe away all of the provisions of the present law relating to racial ineligibles. without substituting any reasonable limitation in their place. The result is fivefold. First. immediately other provisions of the law become operative for the establishment of quotas for each of several oriental countries. secondly. the provisions of existing law. which provide nonquota status for persons who are born in independent countries of the Western Hemisphere. become operative so that an estimated 600.000 orientals who are natives of nonquota countries of the Western Hemisphere would be immediately eligible for immigration to the United States for permanent residence. third. an estimated million and onehalf orientals who are natives of quota countries of the world would be competing for the quotas assigned to the natives of those countries. fourth. under the quotapooling provisions of the socalled substitute measure. the tremendous population of Asia would be competing with the smaller population of Europe for the pooled quotas. and. fifth. thousands upon thousands of orientals without statutory limitation would become immediately eligible for immigration to the United States for permanent residence because of the greatly expanded nonquota categories which would be established pursuant to the amendment. Now. Mr.
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