We received no commitment from him. but we at least had an opportunity to state our case again and to urge him to veto the McCarran bill. It is my hope that he will veto the bill. If he does not. we shall have to recognize the fact that later we must take up again measures which are needed in terms of rectifying some of the inadequacies and injustices contained in this proposed immigration law. Mr. President. I wish to repeat that. as the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary has said. it is difficult and it takes a long time to write an immigration bill. It takes a longer time to rewrite one. Congress was 20 years or so in getting to this task. What we are asked to do now. by adopting the conference report. is literally to put into granite. in immovable. inflexible terms. a new body of immigration law. The tragedy of the whole situation is that history has been ignored. The facts of the last decade have been ignored.
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