Speaker. I am extremely pleased that legislation was filed today by our esteemed colleague. the gentleman from New York. Congressman CELLER. to implement President Kennedys sweeping new immigration proposals outlined in his message of today. . Ever since coming to Congress in January 1953. I have sponsored similar legislation to liberalize the national origins quota system which has worked inhumane hardships on the relatives of American citizens who remained behind in the Mediterraneansouthern European countries. particularly in Portugal. Italy. and Greece. Under our present law. these quotas are based on the number of Americans who migrated from the old country and had gained citizenship before the 1920 census.
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