Speech #840233600

Mr. President. to cause the distinguished Senator from Utah to change his position respecting this basic law which he would now undermine? I say that if the pattern of our basic Immigration Act was sound 3 years ago as a permanent immigration policy of the United States. it is sound today. Let me emphasize that the proposals which I have been discussing are not minor refinements of the law. but strike at the heart of our entire immigration policy which is built upon the national origins quota formula. Recently it has been the fashion to criticize or apologize for the national origins formula. but no solid arguments have been raised against it. I was profoundly shocked to discover that one source of criticism of our immigration policy comes from NATO. whose officials apparently share the view widespread among collectivists internationalists that nations do not have the right to choose who may or may not come to live within their borders. Lord Ismay. in his report on "NATO. the First Five Years" says the NATO Permanent Council is engaged in a study of surpluses and shortages of manpower. and ways to "facilitate labor mobility between their countries." That means Immigration policy. and it means the United States. A few lines later Lord Ismay. speaking of the 1953 law to admit 209.000 extra immigrants. says: This action followed a recommendation of President Eisenhower which stressed the United States interest in strengthening the Atlantic Community. The United Nations has more than once raised the issue of whether the U. N. should take up the question of immigration limits as a form of discrimination against minorities. forbidden by the U. N. provisions on human rights. If NATO is going to be made a single territory for the migration of people. or if we have signed away under U.