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...Humphrey-Lehman bill has a formidable hurdle however--the Senate Judiciary Committee, Pat McCarran, chairman. The Committee has already sent the McCarran bill to the Senate with its blessing. Once in this lion's den, the Humphrey-Lehman bill will be roughly treated, if treated at all. Only a real understanding of the benefits of an intelligent immigration policy will save...
...Congress wanted to construct a sensible, just law out of the jumble of loopholes and restrictions that make up the United States' present immigration policy, it picked the wrong man to do it. Pat McCarran and his staff have labored mightily to produce three hundred and one pages of immigration law, but their magnum opus only worsens the present inequities by codifying them. The Senator from Nevada, the symbol of American immigration policy, is an unfriendly host indeed...
...McCarran Bill, which devotes as much space to deporting immigrants as to admitting them, limits yearly immigration to one-sixth of one percent of the American population. While smaller than many had hoped, this figure is not too unreasonable, for the nation should not admit more people than we can comfortably absorb into out economy. But the McCarran method of immigration is riddled with injustices. Each country's quota of immigrants is based upon the number of American citizens whose families came from that country. By basing this quota on the 1920 census, McCarran discriminates against southern and eastern Europeans...
Provisions like these have led Senators Humphrey and Lehman to propose another bill, as praiseworthy perhaps for its new ideas as for its opposition to the McCarran clauses. For example, it recognizes the fact that separate quotas for each country have resulted in actual immigration of only half the number the overall quota allows. Countries like England have larger quotas than prospective immigrants. The Humphrey-Lehman bill, suggest "pooling" these quotas, so that the slack of countries like England can be taken up by Italy or Greece, where prospective immigrants now peer hopelessly in the windows of the Immigration Service...
...letter to Kulp, they asked such questions as, "Is Eisenhower in favor of a compulsory FEPC?", "Would he support the candidacy of Senator McCarthy on the Republican ticket in Wisconsin?", and "Does Eisenhower favor the repeal of the McCarran...