I completely agree with the Senator from New York. I have said this so often that it has become rather stale. It strikes me that if we are talking about the pattern of racial strains in this country in the year of 1952. after two cataclysmic wars. we should take the roster of the American Army in World War II and look at the racial strains and. upon the basis of those racial strains. judge our immigration law. But that is not good enough. We go back to 1920. when the situation was so rigged that certain people were considered undesirable immigrants to this country. Where would we all have beenwhere would the McCarrans and the Pastores have beenif it had not been for the liberal immigration which was permitted in the case of Ireland. Italy. Portugal. and Greece? Where would the boys have come from who wore the American uniform and won the war in 1945 if it had not been for the sons of immigrants who fought and died for the United States? Now. in this day and age. we hear about the proper racial background. What is so sacred about the census of 1920?
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