We ourselves exercise the right to deny certain individuals entrance into our country. We exercise it perhaps too arbitrarily. I wish to concede. before it is brought up. that the McCarranWalter Act does discriminate against immigrants into this country on the basis of their national origin. This is an unfortunate truth. But. Mr. Chairman. this has absolutely nothing to do with the pending question and there is no analogy involved. Discriminations in our immigration law. on the basis of national origin. are directed only against those who seek to emigrate into this country as permanent residents. We do not discriminate on the basis of national origin. or on any other similar basis. among those who seek to enter the United States as visitors. or as businessmen. and surely not when they come here on the official business of their Government. Any government has a fundamental right to exclude particular individuals on particular grounds.
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