Speech #830251614

pro ternpore laid before the Senate the following concurrent resolution of the Legislature of the State of Louisiana. which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary: House Concurrent Resolution 28 Whereas the 82d Congress (2d seEs.) after many years of careful study enacted the McCarranWalter Immigration Act (Public Law 414) In 1952. and Whereas this omnibus act represents the first comprehensive and integrated law on naturalization and immigration that this country has ever had. and Whereas the McCarranWalter Immigration Act has been and is being subjected to vicious Communistinspired attacks by the Moscow press and radio. as well as the Daily Worker and other Communistcontrolled newspapers published in the United States. which attacks are being supported and maintained by other organizations. groups. and individuals of known Communistfront origin or subject to question as to their American loyalty. all such attacks and propaganda urging repeal of the entire act. and Whereas legislation has been introduced into the present Congress which would nullify or repeal the security safeguards and other protective measures of Public Law 414. including the national origins quota system. and supplant the present law with a policy of immigration by administrative regulation. thus subjecting our Nation to the manipulations and special interests of numerous political and minority pressure groups in this vital field of public safety and welfare: Now. therefore. be It Resolved by the house o representatives and the senate of the 1954 regular session of the Louisiana Legislature. duly convened at Baton Rouge. La.. That they do deplore the attacks being made on the McCarranWalter Immigration Act and oppose any and all attempts now being made to repeal in toto said Public Law 414. or to materially weaken. destroy. or amend said law so as to change any of the following essential principles and safeguards of the present law: (a) A thorough screening. especially of security risks. (b) Exclusion of undesirable applicants for immigration. (c) Deportation procedures to remove immigrant failures and subversives. (d) A system of selective immigration within the national origins quota system. and geared to the needs of the United States. be it further Resolved. That a copy of this resolution duly signed and certified be sent to the President of the United States. the Vice President of the United States. the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States. and to each of the Senators and Representatives of the State of Louisiana in the Congress of the United States. to the Attorney General of the United States. and to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee.