Speech #830269239

I am willing for you to bring in sheepherders. but change the Spanish quota. We have been striving with might and main to provide an amendment to the fundamental act to the effect that unused quotas may be used to bring in deserving people. natives of countries cruelly discriminated against because of small quotas. For example. the British quota. which takes in more than 50 percent of the immigration pie. if I may use that expression. is rarely filled. Tens of thousands of Britains through the years have not come in who could have come in. Why not take unused British quota numbers and apply them to countries like Spain. Italy. Greece. and other lands with ridiculously small and tiny quotas? Thereby the total permissible number of immigrants would not be increased. But when we attempt to amend the Immigration Act in that way we are rebuffed. But we have these subterfuges as is involved in the sheepherders bill. These subterfuges are used constantly. making exceptions to the statute. to bring groups in as nonquota.