Chairman. I most earnestly hope this measure. H.R. 2580. to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and for other purposes. will be promptly and resoundingly approved by the House. I think that most Members here will agree that the need to equitably revise our current immigration laws is one of the most vitally important subjects that today challenges our national moral conscience and the legislative prudence of the Congress. Even a very brief review of our present law reveals that the current national origins system. which determines a nations immigration quota by the proportion of the U.S. population of that national extraction in 1924. visits a most unfair and unpopular discrimination against the majority of the nations of the world. This persistent discrimination has increasingly weakened our position of world leadership and has unwittingly delivered into skillful antiAmerican hands an effective instrument for Communist propaganda against the United States as the proclaimed hope and asylum of the poor and the persecuted and the homeless. Mr. Chairman. surely the great majority of Americans would objectively judge this system and situation to be gravely unfair and it is. indeed. a matter which has seriously hurt the prestige and influence of the United States. both at home and abroad. One of the primary purposes of the bill before us now is to correct the injustices generated by this outdated national origins quota system and I hope the bill will be promptly adopted.
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