Session #84 · 1955–57

Speech #840022286

It saved Greece for the Greeks and for the free world. There is one area in which the United States should do much more than it has done to help the Greek people. I refer to the need to liberalize our present immigration laws. which now cruelly and unfairly discriminate against Greece. bar the door to the admission of all but a handful of persons born in Greece. The number of persons born in Greece who can be admitted into the United States each year is the nominal figure of 308a pitifully small quota. Under the disgraceful nationalorigins quota system and the entire McCarranWalter Act. a cold shoulder is now turned to those Greeksand otherswho should be permitted. in an orderly manner. to emigrate to the United States.
Keywords matched
quota system immigration emigrate

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
HERBERT LEHMAN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
840022286
Paragraph
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