Speech #880228509

Speaker. this bill embodies some principles and suggestions first put forward by former President Eisenhower more than 7 years ago. The major provisions in the bill include: First. A fundamental revision of the National Origins Quota System. A concept of racial or ethnic origin for orientals is abolished. This is the socalled AsiaPacific triangle concept. A persons nationality under this bill would be determined by the place of his birth. A person of Chinese ancestry born in Brazil would be treated as a Brazilian rather than as a Chinese for purposes of immigration. An approximate doubling of the present 155.000 quota numbers to 300.000 annually. and the basing of future quotas upon onesixth of 1 percent of the total number of people in the United States as determined by any future U.S. census. A quota figure thus obtained would be distributed among the various nations in proportion to actual immigration and proven desire to enter the United States between 1924 and 1964. The actual increase in those coming to the United States would be negligible as special legislation regularly admits about 150.000 per year outside the official quota numbers. Second.