The provisions for screening and checking against the possibility of subversives slipping through will be completely carried out. Mr. Speaker. a good many of us very deeply feel and have advocated the necessity for making substantial changes in the present immigration law. The outmoded quota system in that law together with several other discriminatory provisions should be and I hope will be eliminated in the near future. Meanwhile we have a chance here by passage of this emergency measure to correct some of the prevailing injustices. In these circumstances I am in full agreement with the President that we must assume our just share of the responsibility of providing asylum for these desperate men. women. and children who face certain anihilation if they again fall into the hands of the enemy barbarians. As a nation of immigrants and the sons of immigrants passage of this measure is in accord with the best traditions and Ideals of this blessed United States.
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