Speech #820245040

I thank the Senator from Minnesota. Mr. President. in the main. the McCarran immigration bill seeks to perpetuate. reestablish. and reaffirm a policy of bigotry with relation to our immigration laws and procedures. I do not mind particularly to whom we extend our invitation to come to America. But surely. if any Member of the Senate had invited a person to his home over a period of 20 years. and if that person never accepted that cordial invitation. there would be in the invitors mind a serious question as to whether that invitation should come to an end. I am not opposed to the number of persons who come to the United States from Great Britain. under our immigration laws. But the record for the past 20 years has been that while approximately 66.000 were eligible to come to the United States each year. less than onethird of that number has come. Yet there are other peoples. in other areas of the world. who have been willing to come. who have been willing to make their contribution to America. but who have not been wanted.