Speech #830195727

Actually. I do not expect the Senator from Nevada to support such bills. Obviously such bills would defeat the purposes of the national origins quota system. The point I wish to make is I do not believe it is any secret to my colleagues or to many other people that I am personally strongly opposed to the national origins system and to many other provisions of the McCarranWalter Act. I believe that the national origins quota system is evil because it is discriminatory. it is unjust. unreasonable. unrealistic. and impractical. It doesnt work as it was originally intended to work. and it was originally intended to work in a way violently contrary to the ideals. principles. and traditions of the United States. Although the pending bill does nothing at all about these basic defects in our immigration law and. indeed. merely evades them for the benefit of one small -group and one region of our country. I shall not vote against the pending bill. I am in favor of adapting our immigration policies to meet our needs. I am in favor of admitting more worthy and useful people into the United States. including sheepherders. although they are already a uniquely favored group. Fortunately for the sheepraising industry. it has long had a strong advocate for its special needs in the person of the senior Senator of Nevada and. therefore. over the years has been able to obtain on several occasions special legislation to alleviate its need. Other industries and groups in the United States. including educational institutions. hospitals. and research organizations have not been so fortunate. and their needs for immigrant engineers. diemakers. scientists. doctors. nurses. and teachers have had to conform to the restrictive and harsh provisions of the national origins quota system. Over the past several years the Congress has been called upon several times to go around the immigration quota laws and to enact legislation admitting Basque sheepherders. To list three specific occasions on which this has happened I cite Private Law 13. of the 81st Congress. Public Law 587 of the 81st Congress.