Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Attorney General Herbert Brownell. Jr. were requested today by chairman Harley M. Kilgore of the Senate Judiciary Committee to appear before hearings to be held in the near future on the entire question of immigration law revision. The demand for such revision has arisen as a result of public discontent with the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act and the operation of the Refugee relief Act of 1953.
It was learned from informed Congressional sources that the long-awaited Senate immigration hearings will be held by an immigration subcommittee headed by Sen. Kilgore. Such hearings have been sought by Sen. Herbert H. Lehman and other leading opponents of restrictive immigration regulations. The hearings which will probably get under way this month or sometime in June will take up bills recently offered by a number of Senators to revise the immigration, law Included will be measures introduced by ### Lehman, Sen Hubert H. Humphrey, Minnesota Democrat and Sen Irving M Ives New York Republican.
Rep Francis e. Walter co-author of the McCaran Walter law, is expected to convene hearings by the House Immigration Subcommittee. He is chairman of the House Subcommittee. There hearings are anticipated before the end of May. It is thought by Congressional sources that Rep. Walter will seek to justify the discriminatory spirit of his act and the restrictive machinery of the 1953 Refugee Act while offering some amendments of technical aspects of both pieces of legislation.
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