Speech #820214799

I am going to conclude my argument by saying to the Senator from South Dakota that I know his intentions are right. I know there -s no fundamental disagreement as to the objective. All I am saying is that we do not remove racial discrimination in immigration laws when we literally place a premium or a handicap upon an individual because of his ancestral background. I repeat my example: Let us assume that a person of Indonesian extraction has been living in Holland. which. of course. would not be unusual. since Holland at one time was the colonial power which governed Indonesia. Let us assume that there is a child in Indonesia who speaks the Dutch language. who goes to the Dutch Church. that the father of the child is a Dutchman. and that the mother happens to be Indonesian. That has happened. If the child wanted to emigrate to the United States the child could not come in under the Dutch quota. but would have to come in under the socalled AsiaticPacific triangle quota. with its maximum pool of 2.000. A child born in Indonesia of Dutch parentage and Indonesian parentage could come in only under the Indonesian quota. How may that sort of thing be justified in the terms of the relationships we want to establish in this world?