Still. there was no congressional action on the scale necessary to effect a genuine liberalization of the existing law or to omit discriminatory provisions which reflect very poorly on this country throughout the free world. Budget messages for 1959. 1960. and 1961 have repeated the call for action. Only this March the President sent another special message to the Congress. again dealing entirely with the subject of immigration legislation. and recommending specifically a doubling of the number of quota immigrants and an easing in restrictions against refugees fleeing from oppressed areas. Reminders of congressional inactivity in the field were also included in the May 3 special message. as well as that of 2 weeks ago. This then. Mr. President. is the history of executive policies on immigration. The call for a liberalized program is as old as the Eisenhower administration. But the echo of congressional response is still very faint and far away.
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