Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since Composer-Pianist Sergei Prokofiev's visit 34 years ago is Emil Gilels, who comes as Soviet Russia's "foremost pianist." Following the "spirit of Geneva," he was admitted to the U.S. as an "official" so that he would not have to be fingerprinted under the McCarran Immigration Act. But his fingers are making an unforgettable impression on U.S. audiences...
Built-in Booby Traps. The refugee program was disjointed originally by a Senate tug of war. At first the bill, called the Emergency Migration Act, was intended largely for people from Southern Europe barred by the low quotas of the McCarran-Walter Act, the basic U.S. immigration law. Nevada's late Senator Pat McCarran managed to change much of the content, as well as the title. As passed, the act was an administrative monstrosity which Congress assigned to the State Department's Security Chief, Scott McLeod. There was no staff, no office space, not even a desk...
Citing that the restrictions on the beliefs of immigrants are the first symptom of vanishing freedom, he traced the attack on individual liberties through the Smith Act, the McCarran Internal Security Act, and the government security program...
...demonstrated that the immigration program is a "failure," the Administration listens hopefully to the promises of Secretary Dulles and Scott McLeod that we shall fill our quotas. By this time, however, few people remain so naive as not to realize that the present national origins quota is discriminatory. The McCarran Act or even the Refugee Relief Act could hardly be called welcome mats...
Both Democrats and Republicans realize the inadequacies of the McCarran Act and have pledged support to its revision. In an attempt to avoid the quotas, in 1953 Congress accepted President Eisenhower's Refugee Relief Act admitting 209,000 immigrants under an emergency program. But like the McCarran Act, RRA was fouled up by the inefficiency of the immigration service and the complexity of security and eligibility requirements...