Mr. Speaker. today I am introducing four separate bills to carry out the recommendations contained in President Eisenhowers special message to Congress relating to amendments of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. These bills represent progressive steps to assure that we will not be left behind in the cold war. Public pronouncements critical of the present law in this country are often seized upon and twisted by our foes abroad for their own evil purposes. There is no reason why our immigration and naturalization law should be a whippingboy for Communist sympathizers and propagandists. We should demonstrate the ever present willingness of the United States to eliminate from our laws any possible grounds for charges of discrimination and unfairness as soon as circumstances so require. I agree with the President that it is time to revise the McCarranWalter Act. By doing so we can prevent our enemies from exploiting shortcomings in the law in an effort to create dissension among US. Under one of the bills the present quota system would be revised to take the last 1950 census as the base for computing quotas instead of 1920 in the present law. Unused quota numbers would be pooled for distribution in each of four geographical regions. Europe.
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