Mr. Speaker. today I have introduced a revised version of the administrations immigration bill. The measure contains the Presidents immigration recommendations of January 31. 1957. which were introduced that day by me. minus those portions enacted into law during the 1st session of the 85th Congress. Although there are many good features in the present Immigration Act. there are a number of inequities which cry out for revision and modernization. This bill provides the means for moderate. but substantial. changes which will serve the best interests of the Nation. Although some desirable revisions were achieved in last years bill. as the President has pointed out. they fell far short of his recommendations. Important changes. including regularization of the status of the Hungarian freedom fighters. bringing the quota system up to date. and distribution of unused quota numbers. were ignored. They should. without further delay. become the law of the land. Revision of our immigration laws is. of course. a complicated matter. No to each quota area that proportion which the immigration to the United States since July 1. 1924. and up to July 1. 1955. from that area bears to the total immigration from all quota areas. Another significant change proposed is to provide for utilization of unused quota numbers. Under existing law failure to use in the year all of the quota allocated to a particular area results in its being wiped out.
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