This reservation aside. let me again express my sincere desire that Congress see fit to pass this measure and to appropriate the necessary resources to fulfill the provisions of mandated by it. I am aware of the expense attached to this measure. however. I feel we must retain our firm resolve to carry out the intention of this billto give the preeminent country of immigrants fair and equitable immigrant laws at last. Mr. President. immigrants have contributed so much to our Nationand to my State. As a Senator from New York. I can particularly appreciate these contributions. Nathan Glazer and I wrote in Beyond the Melting Pot that New York. after all. is a merchant metropolis with an extraordinary heterogenous population composed of immigrants and their descendents. The first shipload of settlers sent out by the Dutch was comprised largely of Frenchspeaking Protestants. British.
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