The critical housing shortage and the need for urban renewal was left unremedied. And Federal assistance for local school construction and raising teachers salaries failed of enactment. My bill for an enlightened Immigration law also failed to pass. but it seems clear to me that we must. if our status as the leader in the free world is to be maintained. completely revise our immigration statutethe McCarranWalter Act--so as to admit worthwhile persons who are now denied entry into this country because of discriminating quota systems. Our present immigration policy should also be revised to abolish its arbitrary provisions which discriminate between native born and naturalized citizens. In 1957 and 1958 and 1959. at the end of each session of the Congress. I distributed to all my constituents a brief evaluation of our workboth the accomplishments and the shortcomings.
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