Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarran-Walter Immigration Act is a "blind" and "immature" reenactment of an anachronistic 1924 law, Louis L. Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law charged last night, speaking before the Harvard-Radcliffe Society for Minority Rights...
...many criticisms of the McCarran Act, one of the most important is the fact that this bill "is not really our immigration policy; it just appears to be," Jaffe said. Since 1948, some 600,000 refugees have entered this country, he pointed out. Many of these were in special relief quotas outside the national limits set up by the McCarran...
Sympathizing with the NAACP, the Society for Minority Rights is mainly concerned with the integration problem, though "itching to do some work on the McCarran-Walter Act, Puerto Ricans in New York City, orientals on the West Coast, and Mexicans in the Southwest." Its membership is around 25, of whom eight are active...
...practical defects of McCarran-Walter have been demonstrated with remarkable frequency since its enactment. And, as the Hungarian situation showed, the provisions for emergency refugee admission are totally inadequate...
...attempt to replace the McCarran-Walter Act, Kennedy's proposal cannot help being an improvement over current policy, but its effect is merely to replace the inapplicable principles of chemistry with equally inapplicable genetics. Reunion of families is an extremely desirable goal for immigration policy, but it cannot constitute the entire basis of an alien-admission system. The assumption that relatives of citizens and resident aliens make more desirable immigrants is as ridiculous as McCarran-Walter's national origins hypothesis...