No provision of any national law is more distasteful to millions of Americans or to the peoples of many nations of the world than the concept of judging a mans worth for immigration on the basis of his place of birth or the ancestry of his parents. Five successive PresidentsFranklin D. Roosevelt. Harry S. Truman. Dwight D. Eisenhower. John F. Kennedy. and President Johnsonhave all asked for a revision in the present method of choosing immigrants on the basis of their nationality. President Truman said that the idea behind this discrimination was. to put it boldly. that Americans with English or Irish or German names made better citizens than Americans with Italian. Greek. or Polish names.
Identified stereotypes
Claims that some nationalities make better citizens than others.