Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growing resentment towards the United States on the part of foreign government who feel that America is excluding their nationals. On the opposite page of today's paper there is a survey of some of the shortcomings in U.S. immigration practice, including examples of the bias in the present quota system based on national origins and the absence of a uniform right of review and appeal...
...chief reforms advocated is a Unified Quota system to replace the national origins method now used. Instead of allocating a fixed number of immigrants to each country, the new plan would divide the total number into preference groups, designed to provide for family reunion, asylum for the persecuted, relief for over-populated areas, the special needs for technical skills, and lastly, general immigration. Also abolished is the practice of leaving a large proportion of the total quota unused...
...Unified Quota system is not only fairer to prospective immigrants, but it also removes a major source of international friction by wiping out racial and national discrimination. Adoption of the Lehman bill would mean gearing the quota system to the foreign policy interests and internal needs of the United States, rather than to obsolete prejudices...
While these revisions in the organization and quota system are the major advantages of the new bill, numerous other provisions add to its merit. Especially needed are alterations in its present blunderbuss security provisions that trap innocent visitors and ship crewmen in the confusion of intricate safeguards. The bill would tighten regulations against the possible entrance of actual subversives while removing the unnecessary and complicated security checks. In addition, many passages of the McCarran Act are reworded to eliminate harsh, ambiguous, and inconsistent standards...
...Quota Openings 'Mortgaged...