Mr. President. I have long felt that constructive changes should be made in our current immigration and naturalization laws in the interest of expedition. justice. and fair play. I have felt that the codification of these laws represented an important forward milestone. but that the newly codified statutes could be revised in the light of our recent experience. without in any way doing harm to the basic need for security. We all recognize that residence in the United Statesboth on a temporary or a permanent basisis a great privilege. and we do not want it abused. We know that world communism has sought to infiltrate the ranks of immigrants. and that such infiltration is not only harmful to the cause of American security. but that it tarnishes unfairly the good name of immigrants as a whole. Of course. we are a country of immigrants. My own parents came from the Old World. I have seen the miracle of assimilation into the American fabric occur all around me in my native State. President Eisenhower has pointed up the revision problem to which I have just referred. I hope that the Immigration SubCommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee will give its early and earnest consideration to his recommendations. I hope too. that a common meeting ground can be promptly found in the interest of the various goals I have set forth. I send to the desk now the text of a letter which I have received from the Milwaukee region of the Womens American Organization For Rehabilitation Through Traininga letter similar to many other earnest expressions which I have received from my State.
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World communism seeks to infiltrate the ranks of immigrants.