Speech #820214812

Mr. President. the effect of this amendment is to remove from Senate bill 2550 those provisions relating to the AsiaPacific triangle which provide for special treatment of certain Asiatics and natives of Pacific islands under the quotas. Briefly. under those provisions an area described by longitudes and latitudes encompassing generally those Asiatic and Pacific areas from which immigration is presently barred. is cstablished. People attributable by as much as onehalf of their ancestry to races indigenous to the AsiaPacific triangle are chargeable to*the quotas for the quota areas within the triangle o- to a special overall AsiaPacific quota. Those who advocate the deletion of this provision charge that it introduces new racial discriminations in our immigration laws. In answer to that argument. I should like to point out to the Members of the Senate that under existing law. the Asiatics and natives of the Pacific islands in question are absolutely barred from admission to the United States as immigrants with the exception of natives of China. India. and the Philippines. It is to be observed that when the racial exclusions were removed in the case of Chinese and Indians. the requirement was inserted in the lawwhich is the law todaythat persons attributable by as much as onehalf their ancestry to races indigenous to China or India are chargeable to the quotas of those countries.