Mr. President. for more than a year now I have been working. studying. writing. and speaking on the subject of immigration. For the past 2 weeks I have spoken often in the course of the prolonged debate we have had on the subject of the McCarran omnibus immigration bill. I have felt that no measure of greater significance and scope has been before the Congress since I have been a Member. I felt that the passage of the McCarran bill in substantially the form in which it has passed would be a development of the gravest consequences. I have felt that. should this measure or one roughly similar to it become law. the very meaning of America. as most of us know it. would be radically affected. that hundreds of thousands of aliens in this country. and hundreds of thousands of naturalized and even nativeborn citizens. would be seriously affected. I did not contest and do not now contest the fact that there are some desirable and useful provisions In the bill. I. too. would like to see those provisions enacted.
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