Minimum quotas shall be doubled to 200this includes dependent territories. Fifth. Provision is made for annual parole of refugees and escapees into the United States up to a number of 15.000or up to any number if the President decides an emergency exists. Such refugees may be given immigration status after 2 years in numbers up to 25.000 per year. Sixth. Secondclass citizenship as between nativeborn and naturalized Americans is abolished. This places in legislation that principle which the Supreme Court has recently affirmed. Seventh. A fourth preference is established for brothers. sisters. married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens. thus doubling the number of visas available to them under former provisions. and parents of resident aliens are added to the preference list. Unused numbers are made available to persons willing to work at jobs for which a shortage of willing workers exists in the United States. Eighth. Quotas are abolished for all independent countries and islands in the Americas. Ninth. Provisions for naturalizing persons who have served honorably in our Armed Forces are liberalized. Mr. Speaker. we are truly a nation of immigrants. If we would honor our .heritage we must put an endhere and nowto discriminatory national origins quotas. secondclass citizenship. and divided families. H.R. 11437 A bill to amend titles I. II. and III of the Immigration and Nationality Act and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That this Act may be cited as the "Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1964." Section 201 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 175. 8 U.S.C. 1151) is amended to read as follows:
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