It is my belief that the people of Italy. Greece. Poland. and Lithuania should be given the opportunity to emigrate to the United States under these unused quotas. In addition. the total quota should be increased. based upon the 1950 census. because our country is much richer and stronger than it was in 1924 and is thus able to provide more opportunities for immigrants. The President. in his special message to Congress on this subject February 8. 1956. recommended improvements in our immigration law. Among other points. he emphasized the advisability of admitting 65.000 more quota immigrants each year. bringing the total to about 220.000 admissions annually. Furthermore. he recommended that the Congress provide. separately from the increased annual quota. for the admission of 5.000 aliens annually without regard to nationality or nation origin. Use of these numbers would enable us to meet some of the needs of this country which develop from time to time for persons with special skills and cultural or technical qualifications. Finally. he advised a change in the private bill system of handling and providing relief for individual immigration cases. In the -last session of Congress. out of a total of 880 bills passed. 413 dealt with private immigration measures. This interferes with the consideration of more urgent national problems. The President recommends that the Attorney General be given the administrative authority to pass these hardship cases. Such discretion should be limited to aliens with close relatives in this country. to veterans. and to functionaries of religious organizations. regardless of the technical statutory ground on which the alien is inadmissible. or subject to deportation. My good friend on the Republican side of the House Judiciary Committee introduced several bills covering these improvements for the administration. On the Democratic side.
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