Word: mccarranism
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Among the invidious features of the present McCarran law, the provisions that apply to visiting scientists are perhaps the most immediately harmful to this country. At present, there are two resolutions before the House Judiciary Committee introduced by Representative Gubser that aim at eliminating the worst features of the law as it applies to temporary visas...
...reverberations of McCarran's law have been felt both here and abroad. Across the Atlantic, the growing number of bungled cases has produced a mounting resentment of U.S. policies, especially among traditional friends. Further, by keeping out the scientists, the law has closed one of the most impressive aspects of American society--that of unfettered scientific research--to foreign observers. In the past this has been a powerful way of advertising democracy...
...then, as these resolutions suggest, the U.S. can trade greater scientific freedom for a minimum security risk, the chance is too good is let pass. Scientific exchange is not something the McCarran Law can close down without crippling consequences for the West...
...bill, S. 2585, known as the "Immigration and Citizenship Act of 1953," sponsored by Senator Herbert H. Lehman (D-N.Y.). Briefly, the proposed bill, the first alternate to an existing immigration law in U.S. history, would recodify and unify the immigration statutes, and thus become the omnibus which McCarran-Walter purports...
...States), and would allow reassignment of unused quotas. Senator Lehman's bill would also consolidate the overlapping duties of the State (consulates) department and Justice (immigration service) departments, by creating a single commission. The proposed bill which would assign quotas where they also clarifies much of the ambiguity of McCarran-Walter, as well as providing for appeal, and now almost non-existent statutes of limitation, etc., would be clarified and expanded...