President. "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time." Thomas Jefferson said over 150 years ago. But that God did not give us the right to deny liberty to those who desire it and did not give us the right to presuppose that one race of people is more desirable than another race. The McCarranWalter Immigration Act has long been conceded to be discriminatory and to be against the principles on which our Nation was founded. My distinguished colleague. the lionorable Senator PHILIP A. HART. of Michigan. has proposed a bill which would eliminate the discriminatory features of the McCarranWalter Act. His bill. which I am proud to cosponsor asks for the total number of admissible immigrants to be oneseventh of 1 percent of the total population instead of onesixth of 1 percent of the white population according to the 1920 census. He would revise the "national origins" quota system by a formula based on the relative population of the countries of the world. The proposal also places great emphasis on legislating a family reunion in the United States. This is sensible legislation.
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Presupposing that one race of people is more desirable than another race.