If we are to keep faith with our promise to reunite as many of these families as is humanly possible we must enact a liberal law to solve this problem. We can help some of them now. For an interim remedy. until the Immigration and Nationality Act can be carefully and thoroughly revised and brought up to date. I have introduced a bill to move up the cutoff date of registrants by 1 year. It provides that any alien who is registered on a consular waiting list under a priority date earlier than December 31. 1954. and is eligible for a quota immigrant status on the basis of a petition approved by the Attorney General prior to January 1. 1962. and the spouse and children of such alien. shall be held to be nonquota immigrants and if otherwise admissible shall be issued nonquota immigrant visas. Immigrants created and developed our Nation. Their hunger for freedom has found a fulfillment here that has not as yet been equaled in any other part of the world. Our peoples regard for humanity. their faith in the worth of every individual. is nourished by the varied racial and cultural contributions that come to us in the person of immigrants who are welcomed to our open society. By helping aliens to join the family circle of their close relatives in the United States. we shall strengthen our Nation with the love and gratitude of those who are reunited in freedom.
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