Speech #880288340

But even so. under public pressure. the Congress has amended and modified the JohnsonReed Act from time to time. Finally in 1952 over President Trumans Presidential veto. the Congress passed the McCarranWalter Act. It codified under one act all laws affecting immigration incorporating the old statutes and early conceptions of the Nations policy in this field. As herein before stated the quotaorigin act computation was adopted as the operating formula for the unit national admission of Immigrants. It reflects in its applicability and formula racial discrimination against our very allies in a sensitive area of national policy. The token quotas of 100 per year assigned to nations numbering millions in native population is a senseless and asinine system. The administration bill is more realistic and reasonable. After 5 years with the fading out of the national origin system. immigrant visas would be available to any alien meeting the qualifications without regard to the country of his birth. The qualifications. rigid as they may be under the McCarranWalter Act. are preserved in H.R. 7700 with certain modifications. Again the 10percent limitation visas issued in any one year to any one nation prevents monopolizing the visas available under other visa prescriptions in the bill. The bill thus meets the critical needs and balances out the inequities and impractical controls now prevalent in the law. In specific terms It eliminates the false conception that the bars to limited immigration are down. As a member of the Judiciary Committee. I shall support H.R. 7700. and urge the subcommittee to report H.R. 7700 favorably to the full committee for passage.