Sep. Jacob K. Javits said today in introducing a bill on behalf of himself and eight other members of Congress to revise the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act that the sponsors “believe that the Administration intends to lend its weight and Influence to the rewriting of the McCarran immigration law and proposes to lend all aid and cooperation to see that this is done. “
The bill introduced today, Rep. Javits said, is designed to correct the injustices pointed out by President Eisenhower in his letter of April 6, 1953, to chairman Arthur V. Watkins of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee. It also would do away with procedural and administrative inequities which have emerged in the administration of the law.
Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr., defended the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act as a powerful weapon against Communism in testimony today before a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee.
Speaking of Department of Justice efforts to fight Communism, Mr. Brownell said “the immigration and nationality laws are of obvious importance to this problem because the domestic Communist movement is but a part of a world-wide Communist conspiracy.”
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