Mr. Chairman. I will support H.R. 2580. which amends the Immigration and Nationality Act. because of the reforms it brings to the law by abolishing the national origins quota system. I find it inexcusable. however. that provisions are being retained in the proposal. at the insistence of the administration. that will discriminate against the Polish. the Italian. and the Swedish immigrants. These people and those from other countries outside the Western Hemisphere hre being discriminated against in this bill by the rigid numerical limits being placed on their immigration here. Highly preferential treatment. meanwhile. is being afforded to our friends from our own hemisphere. I will vote for the bill because of the changes it will bring to our archaic immigration system. But the proposal leaves the job only half done by discriminating against many other countries of the world. I regret that this legislation could not have carried the Republican amendment that would have corrected this glaring contradiction.
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