Mr. President. I rise to introduce a bill which would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act. I have long had a deep and abiding interest in immigration policy based on my experience as a vice consul administering the current basic immigration law. my work as an officer of the American Immigration and Citizenship Conference. and my work with refugees in Austria after the Hungarian revolution as a vice president of the International Rescue Committee. Mr. President. my experience and study have convinced me that there is a vital need for new immigration legislation to meet the responsibilities we face as a leader of the free world in the decade of the sixties. This bill. I introduce today. permits the admission of 250.000 immigrants annually. Eighty thousand of the visas provided for in this bill would be allotted on the basis of the proportion which each countrys population holds to the world population but no one country could be allotted more than 1.500 visas under this provision. An additional 120.000 visas would be allocated according to the proportion each countrys annual immigration during the past 15 years to the United States. holds to an average of the total immigration to the United States during the same period. This formula strikes at the unAmerican concept that one race is superior to another or that northern and western Europeans make better Americans than do southern and eastern Europeans. For instance. under the present law.
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The speaker argues against the idea that one race is superior to another or that northern and western Europeans make better Americans than do southern and eastern Europeans.