President Eisenhower today predicted to publishers of foreign-language newspapers who called at the White House that Congress will adopt the Administration bill to admit above-quota immigrants and said he will continue to work to revise the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act.
The President told the publishers there was no question in his mind that the McCarran-Walter Act should be amended to “remove the injustices.” He said the current emergency bill would “by-pass” some of the restrictive features of the McCarran-Walter Act to enable upwards of 200,000 additional immigrants to enter.
The publishers commended the President for his action on immigration and urged him to seek revision of the McCarran-Walter Act. Arthur L. Jacobs, of the Yiddish-language “Day-Morning Journal” of New York, was a member of the delegation which also included publishers of American newspapers printed in the Polish, German, Italian, Russian, Greek and Czech languages.
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