The purpose of. this amendment is to strike out the following words from section 9: The selection of persons admitted into the United States under this act shall be made without discrimination in favor of or against race. religion. or national origin of such persons. Those words are stricken out on the theory. perhaps. that we do pot ever discriminate. Whether or not that fact is true. Mr. Chairman. I submit that those words are useful in this law. They are useful in order to tell the world that in admitting these people we are doing it without discrimination. We have all had letters. Mr. Chairman. complaining of certain allegedly discriminatory features of our immigration laws. My point is that whether people holding those views are right or wrong. it is a good thing to continue these words in the act. Mr.
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